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EDITOR'S COLUMN
Konstantin Scherbakov. We are getting accustomed….
The author reflects upon the harsh mores of our film community, which tends to forget its human side in the interests of the bottom line.
ACTUALITIES COLUMN
The most important of all arts — the art of finding funding?
Report on the Kiev session of the Council of the Confederate Union of Cinematographers of the NIS countries and the Baltics.
Kora Tsereteli. Breakthrough or breakdown?
In this critic's opinion, there was a positive breakthrough in the Georgian film-making process at the Tbilisi International Film Festival «Antari».
Andrei Shemiakin. A taste for the authentic.
A new stage in film-making truth: the critic seen as a modern strand in domestic documentaries.
«KF» PREMIERES
Gulbara Tolomushova. Marrying a Kyrgyz man with a dowry.
Sergei Kudravtsev. The chests of our forgotten ancestors.
Reviews of «The Wedding Chest»- a Russian film made in the context of Kyrgyz reality, a Kyrgyzstan, Russian, French and German co-production.
FILM, FILM, FILM…
Sergei Kudravtsev. Let it sting even worse…until the tears come! (from the poem «Ignatiev's Wood» by Arseni Tarkovsky T.N.)
Review of the film «Seven Invisible Men» by Lithuania's top cinematographer, Sharunas Bartas
Alexander Rudenko-Desnyak. When time comes apart.
Review of the Armenian film «Yakhrusta» and «Zhano»
Gulbara Tolomushova. The story of a middle-aged man's love impressions.
Review of the film «Love», from the renowned Iranian filmmaker Mokhsen Makhmabaf, filmed in Tajikistan.
Sergei Kudravtsev. Captured time.
Review of the documentary film «Bloskade» by Sergei Loznitsa, which has already received several prestigious film awards.
CONCEPTIONS. HYPOTHESIS. FINDINGS.
Zara Abdullaeva. The Berlin Ensemble.
Report on the 56th Berlin International Film Festival
Neya Zorkaya. Europe in Flames.
An afterward by the coordinator of the film retrospective «Europe in Flames» which was shown at the 9th Kinoforum, as well as a portrait by two artists in the discussion, Kirill Razlogov and Vladimir Padunov (Pittsburgh).
Valery Fomin. Wham, bam…thank you ma'am! [ПОМАТРОСИЛИ И БРОСИЛИ…]
Introduction to the Stalin «lack of films» epoch. The author's reflections and archival documents.
The Hunting Game.
A conversation with the Estonian documentary-animalist Rein Moran.
AUTHOR'S COLUMN
Notes from a free and easy film viewer.
Lev Anninsky. The Gatchina Mirror.
The famous author proposes his subjective view of a series of film projects.
Trivial pursuit.
Irakli Kvirikadze. Non-Polaroid snapshots.
This wonderful author, cinematographer and director remembers cult figures in world cinema.
PERSONA
Alla Bobkova. Artist's sometimes have wings.
Valentin Chernikh. Beloved film-beloved director.
The director Valery Rubinchik — a portrait of two feathers.
INFO COLUMN
Information about a new idea from the Kazakh director Satibalty Narimbetov.
SCREENPLAYS
Ernest Abdyzhaparov. Pure Coolness [Светлая прохлада].
The story of a film that is being currently filmed based on the screenplay of the author of «Saratan» — a film which has achieved international success.