2016 Listapad Film Festival to finish today

11 ноября 2016

By Olga Medved: Today is the final day of the 2016 Listapad Film Festival. The festival week has seen the screenings of 159 films from 45 countries, 83 of them participating in the main competition. The winners will be announced at the closing ceremony in the Moskva cinema.

Each day was dedicated to a specific topic featuring special guests from abroad. Listapad has hosted days of Belarusian initiatives, international festivals, producers, Polish documentary films and virtual reality. Simultaneous screenings of 360-degree films took place in Belarus for the first time. This year’s Listapad also featured photo exhibitions representing the film industries of Latvia, Poland and Belarus.

The festival week will finish with Afterimage by Polish director Andrzej Wajda. It is biopic about Polish and Belarusian avant-garde artist of the first half of the 20th century Wladyslaw Strzeminski.