Home | China | World | Business Film Festival Opens in West Russian City MON, FEB 25, 2002     The eighth Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" opened in Gatchina, a city in west Russia's Leningrad region, on Sunday. Itar-Tass news agency reported that more than a hundred films will be shown at the festival. All the films presented at the festival, except foreign films, will be shown free of charge at the Pobeda movie theater, the main venue of the show. The jury of the film festival headed by writer Sergei Yesin, rector of the Gorky Literature Institute, will judge four aspects of the event, namely, feature, documentary films, cartoons and debuts. The last show will be short films made by students of the State Cinematography Institute. The program of the film festival includes 10 full-length feature films, which were produced by cinematographers of Russia and Ukraine based on novels and plays by Fedor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Lesya Ukarinka and modern prose. Henrietta Yanibekova, Director of the film festival, told a press conference that the festival aims to emphasize its special atmosphere of spiritual openness, but does not pursue any commercial goals. Writer Daniel Granin has been nominated President of the film festival, which will last till March 4. Editor:Zhong Source:Xinhua Recommend to your friend email:    China Central Television,All Rights Reserved