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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.
On 22 August 2013 media reported that Wentworth Miller would boycott the festival [1]—to protest against laws banning "homosexual propaganda" in Russia.
There were 14 films from different countries selected for the 2012 competition programme:
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
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:
President of the Jury
Jury
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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.
On 22 August 2013 media reported that Wentworth Miller would boycott the festival [1]—to protest against laws banning "homosexual propaganda" in Russia.
There were 14 films from different countries selected for the 2012 competition programme:
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
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:
President of the Jury
Jury