The Presidential Library will award the best disclosing of the ecology theme on the “World of knowledge” film festival

The Presidential Library will take part in the “World of Knowledge” XII International Film Festival of Popular Science and Educational Movies, which will be held in St. Petersburg from on October 18—22, 2017. The theme of this year festival is ecology, and the slogan — “The Green Planet,” but the organizing committee also accepted the entries from the filmmakers on related subjects. There are about 25 works in short-list, among which are at least 40-50% of domestic popular science movies.

The Presidential Library is in the organizing committee of the festival and, after summing up the results, traditionally awards a special prize for matching historical truth in a documentary film. As a rule, the library supports journalistic researches of the authors focusing on research of the social and historical problems of a society. In the Year of Ecology in Russia, the Presidential Library will award the movie from a special festival program dedicated to environmental protection.

On October 19, 2017, at 3 pm the Presidential Library will be a venue of the “World of Knowledge” festival, hosting a screening and a discussion of directed by Dmitry Semibratov film “The Land of People.” This is a large-scale the research driven and adventurous film with an obvious ambitious goal — once again to re-open for Russia a unique territory of Kuriles and to present the Kuril Islands with their unique human and natural potential to the world. The movie shows outstanding people who live in places far away from modern-day civilization — on different islands of the Kuril Ridge, where there is no Internet, cellular communication is not supported, no some other everyday common to the inhabitants of the continent items, but where the strength of human mind and an ability to come on time and to help the others is extremely important.

Since 2016, Gorky Film Studio acts as an organizer of the St. Petersburg’s “World of Knowledge” film festival. The studios has re-branded the “World of Knowledge” film festival, changed its visual appearance and drawn to it an active young audience.

The program of the festival will expand considerably this year. The organizers have in the agenda the movies’ competition, the “ecological” special program, short movies, science slam, master classes and lectures on ecology, cinematography and art, and also an exhibition of science art. Among the movies of the main competition program are the “Zero Days” documentary thriller about cyber attacks and the developing further digital warfare, directed by Alex Gibney, the film-study “A Residence Above the Clouds” about the activity of an English astronomer known for his theory of the astronomical features of the Cheops pyramid, as well as films dedicated to research in the field of genetic engineering (“Golden Genes”), observation of wildlife (“The Wolf Mountains”), and a movie about whether it is possible to build a sun on the earth (“Let There Be Light”).

The festival is developing, transforming into an international scientific and cultural platform — the meeting point of all those who are not indifferent to the cinema, science and knowledge, to the fate of our planet in the future.

Lendok Studios will traditionally be the main site of the festival. Among other venues for special events and planned occurrences of the festival will be the Presidential Library, the Russian Geographical Society, ITMO University, the House of Journalists, selected schools and universities in St. Petersburg.

The partnership relations of the Presidential Library with the “World of Knowledge” film festival will grow, as well as with the film studios supporting the library’s Cinema Club on 3 Senate Square. After all, the Presidential Library today is a existent creative laboratory, where research is being conducted, multimedia projects are being launched, screenings with discussions of the movies and online broadcastings are going on, and all that in many ways makes the institution a full-fledged documentary filmmaking facility and expands its audiovisual content.