Moscow will host the Irish Film Festival Automatic translate
MOSCOW. In the capital of Russia from March 11 to 22 will be held the Week of Ireland - a festival dedicated to Irish art and culture. As part of the event, a costume parade will be held on the streets of St. Patrick’s Day.
Concerts and performances, stand-up performances by the main comedian of the “green island” Dipan Moran, tastings of traditional Irish Guinness beer and cocktails based on Irish whiskey await residents and guests of the capital during 12 festival days. On weekends, the festival organizers promise non-stop night-time screenings of the best Irish premiere films of recent years, as well as several thematic film screenings, including paintings by European and Russian filmmakers.
The Irish Film Festival in Moscow will be held for the eighth time. This year, the film screening program announced 9 films, including a participant in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival 2014 "Jimmy’s Hall" directed by Ken Loach, the animated film "Song of the Sea", nominated for an Oscar -2015, the comedy "Gold" by Niall Heri. Among the festival premieres will be screenings of the film “The Godfather” of Belfast punk Terry Hooley entitled “Good Vibrations”, the animated short “Upside Down” and the Oscar-nominated picture “Days of Stella” with Martin Sheen as the priest of a small provincial town.
In addition to feature films, the Irish Film Festival will also feature Irish documentary films for the first time. The 11 best films telling about the history of Irish culture, modern Dublin, street poets and hip-hop culture, Irish pubs and city cemeteries, as well as much more will be shown at the Moscow Documentary Film Center.
Ireland Week 2015 this year will include more than 130 different events that will be held in five cities of Russia - in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. The schedule of shows and the program of the event can be found on the official website of the festival irishweek.ru.
Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru
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