Saint Petersburg International Film Festival (Russian: Са́нкт-Петербу́ргский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. Sánkt-Peterbúrgskiy mezhdunaródniy kinofestivál; abbreviated as SPIFF) takes place as part of the Saint Petersburg international film forum. This is Saint Petersburg's first competitive international festival for feature-length fiction films.

2013 boycott

On 22 August 2013 media reported that Wentworth Miller would boycott the festival[1]—to protest against laws banning "homosexual propaganda" in Russia.

2012

Competition Programme

There were 14 films from different countries selected for the 2012 competition programme:

The opening and closing films

The festival's opening film
Le grand soir, 2012, dir. Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, France-Belgium
The festival's closing film
Shadow Dancer, 2012, dir. James Marsh, Great Britain-Ireland

Out-of-competition programmes

The out-of-competition programmes showed films which displayed the most recent trends in world cinema as well as several retrospectives. 2012's festival had 11 out-of-competition programmes:

The Jury

President of the Jury

  • Emir Kusturica, Serbia (Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Actor, Composer)

Jury

  • Aku Louhimies, Finland (Director, Scriptwriter, Producer)
  • Erika Gregor, Germany (Film Historian, Expert)
  • Gilli Mendel, Israel (Director of Film and Media Education at the Jerusalem Film Center)
  • Elena Yatsura, Russia (Producer)

References

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