Gathering

About

Objects of a festival are:

• Helping the artists of national culture, based on Orthodoxy, at meeting with the audience;
• Creation of the original platform for professional development and the religious growth of the experts wishing to work within orthodox culture;
• Opening of the way to the viewer to those works of art which will help improve situations in health care, education, culture, armies in the different countries;
• Decreasing terrorist moods in the world thanks to peaceful contents of movies;
• Saturation a cultural information field of the state with positive social experience of life in modern conditions;
• Association of cinematographers of the different countries on the basis of uniform Christian outlook.;

Awards

• The film festival Grand Prix - "Crystal birds" and a cash bonus
• To the winner in the nomination "The Best Fiction Film", "the Best documentary"    "The best animation movie" –     crystal candlestick, letter
• To winners in other nominations - the special memorable souvenirs
• Prize of spectator sympathies
• Prize colleague to the colleague
• Prize of the president of a film festival

FESTIVAL NOMINATIONS

• Nomination «For the Best Fiction Film about an Orthodox Way of Life»
• Nomination «For the Best Documentary about an Image of the Modern Christian»
• Nomination «For the Best Animation Movie about Christian Values»
• Nomination «For the Best Educational Film»
• Nomination «For the Best Television Movie about Mercy»
• Nomination «For the Best Advertising Movie about a Social Healthy Lifestyle»
• Nomination «For the Best Movie about Preservation of the Environment»
• Nomination «For Opening of the Hero of Our Time»
• Nomination «For the Best Debut»
• Nomination «For Best Actress»
• Nomination «For Best Actor»
• Nomination «for the best children's role»

Rules

• The authors who are supporting the fundamental ideas of a film festival and having desire to promote realization of tasks of this project can participate in a film festival.
• The jury takes cognizance of the short and full-length movies, television movies of all genres (documentary, game, animation, information, advertising, scientific) corresponding to subject and problems of a film festival and created not earlier than 2019 in Russian (or with subtitles in Russian).
• The number of movies isn't limited.

• For out-of-competition display movies of festival subject are accepted irrespective of creation terms

Entry:

• Fill in entry form.
• Pay entry fee after receiving invitation for participation.

Subtitle language: Russian

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

• Kaluga diocese of ROC
• Administration of the Kaluga region
• Administration of Obninsk
• Non-profit partnership  «Film festival « Meeting»
• With assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Union of cinematographers of the Russian Federation