FEEL THE POWER OF CINEMA at Side by Side LGBT Film Festival, 21 – 24 April, 2016 Moscow

FEEL THE POWER OF CINEMA at Side by Side LGBT Film Festival, 21 – 24 April, 2016

Side by Side will be celebrating its fifth Moscow film festival from 21 – 24 April, 2016.

The theme is the power of cinema and this year the audience through the programming selection will be reminded of cinema’s incredibly transformative power and how it can impress upon us particular emotions, introduce new ideas or concepts that may challenge our perception, encourage us to formulate a more critical stance or even more dramatically be a call to action. Side by Side will be offering some of the most talked about and highly acclaimed LGBT films produced over the last 12 months..

To open the festival is Peter Greenaway’s latest semi-experimental and visually rich film Eisenstein in Guanajuato. A biopic on one of Russia’s greatest directors, Sergei Eisenstein, the film openly explores his affair with Mexican guide Palomino Cañedo, during his stay in Mexico in the 1930s. Just as then, still now, to speak openly of Eisenstein’s homosexuality, courts controversy and resulted (ashamedly) in the Russian State Film Fund refusing Greenaway’s request for funds to make the film. Despite this obstacle the film was made and the truth has been told! More here: http://www.bok-o-bok.ru/news.asp?lan=1&tid=1564