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The Beat Film Festival, a documentary about the new culture, which will be held from May 26 to June 5, opens the site and announces the program. This year’s Beat Film Festival will present 25 feature films and seven thematic tag programs. The program will include films by Tilda Swinton, Paul Thomas Anderson and D. A. Pennebaker.

“The Seasons in Quency: Four Portraits of John Berger” (The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger) by Tilda Swinton is dedicated to the English philosopher, art critic and booker-winner John Berger. Swinton, along with associates in the Laboratory of Derek Jarman, creates an unusual portrait of a reclusive intellectual, living a hermit in a commune near Paris. Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Junun, on the recording by Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood of an album in Rajasthan, India with a dozen Indian musicians from the Rajasthan Express, continues the long-standing collaboration of Anderson and Greenwood: the latter recorded the soundtracks for the films Oil, Master ”and“ Congenital vice ”. David Bowie in the image of Ziggy Stardust of the 1973 model is the subject of observation by the great American documentary writer D.A. Pennebaker, who managed to capture the farewell performance of the space messiah, catching the hero’s face on the camera (each close-up is a finished cover) and Bowie’s frantic magnetism.

“Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” is part of the American Rebels by Levi’s program about the rebels of the 60s, 70s and 80s of the 20th century, which also includes the films “Janice” )Janis: Little Girl Blue) about the legendary American rock singer and Uncle Howard (Uncle Howard) about the director of the movie "Burroughs" Howard Bruckner, where Jim Jarmusch, including the producer of the film, acts as the narrator.

One of the most interesting Millennials programs about Generation Y will be shown at the Documentary Cinema Center. It will include the favorite of the international festivals of this year, “When the Earth Seems to Be Light” about Georgian skaters and love for Tbilisi, Swedish the Fonko film about the modern African scene with text and a voiceover, possibly of the most influential African artist Fela Kuti, and Hot Sugar’s Cold World about the New York hipster wunderkind Hot Sugar.

Another Future of the Word program will be held as part of the forum of the same name dedicated to the future of literature and language in the digital age, which the British Council holds in early June together with the Strelka Institute. As part of the film program, two films will be shown - “Bitter Lake” by the important British director Adam Curtis and “Innocence of Memories” about Istanbul Orhan Pamuk Grant J, both directors will be guests of the festival and forum and will participate in public currents before shows. The program will be held in the framework of the Year of the Language and Literature of Russia and the UK 2016.

At the Multimedia Art Museum, where the Art program will be shown, the Russian premiere of Mapplethorpe - Look At The Pictures (Mapplethorpe - Look At The Pictures) about the cult American photographer and artist Robert Mapplethorpe, who was friends with Patti Smith, rivaled Andy Warhol and provoked the public even after his death.

The program “Music” will feature a loud premiere of Dmitry Lavrinenko’s new film “LeF” about Leonid Fedorov, a poetic essay that tells the story of the artist’s existence outside of “Auktsion” (the previous film “MORE” was dedicated to the group), Moscow is replaced by New York, and memories from meeting with Henri Volkhonsky and Tail - previously unseen fragments from the filming of the film "Dow" by Ilya Khrzhanovsky.

At the Museon Cinema, as always, repetitions of the main hits of past years (“Retro” program) - “B-Movie: Noise and Rage in West Berlin” (B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989) and “Meet People just "(Meeting People is Easy) about the band Radiohead, which will be shown for the first time by director of the film Grant G. The program also features a special screening of the film Scott Walker: The 30th Century Man (Scott Walker: 30 Century Man), produced by David Bowie, which will be attended by its director Stephen Kayak, whose film "Stones in Exile" opened the very first Beat Film Festival in 2010. Stephen arrives in Moscow with the support of the US Embassy in Moscow to present his latest film about the popular Japanese band X Japan.

Also in the program is the film “Requem for the American Dream”, consisting of Noam Chomsky’s thoughts on capitalism, “Heart of a Dog” by the great Laurie Anderson, artist, musician and widow of Lou Reed, “ Waiting for B ”about Brazilian fans Beyoncé, who built a tent camp at the entrance to the stadium two months before the concert, the film“ Zlatan. The Beginning ”(Becoming Zlatan) about the main hooligan of modern football Zlatan Ibrahimovic (program“ Sport ”).

At the close of the festival, the premiere of the film “SOS to the Sailor!” About the Mumiy Troll group and its trip around the world will take place.

Tickets for all Beat Film Festival films will be available on the festival website starting May 1. The opening of the festival and special events will be announced later in mid-May.

The Beat Film Festival was founded in 2010 as an independent cultural initiative and in seven years has grown into one of the largest documentary film shows in Russia. His program includes screenings of high-profile documentaries, which premiered recently at major international film festivals, parties and special events with guest directors and prominent representatives of modern culture. In 2015, the festival was held at six city venues; more than 10,000 people attended it.