Artists from 13 countries participate in ClassFest International Festival of Theatre Schools, ninth issue, in Moldova

Chisinau, 7 May /MOLDPRES/ - Artists from 13 countries (Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) will participate in the ninth issue of the ClassFest International Festival of Theatre and Film Schools, held in Chisinau on 7-12 May.     

The festival’s director, dean of the Theatre, Film and Dance Faculty at the Music, Theatre and Fine Arts Academy Svetlana Tirtau told a today’s news conference that the international artistic event promoted young cinema men, encouraged the exchange of experience and professional relations between various cinematographic schools from Western and Eastern countries, thus fostering the development of the cinematographic process in Moldova.  

”The ninth issue brings together in Chisinau representatives of the following film schools: State Academy of Arts from Belarus, State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography from Armenia, State Institute of Performing Arts from Russia, School for Cinema and TV from Kyrgyzstan, Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University from Ukraine, National Film, Television and Theatre Schools from Poland, T.K. Zhurgenov National Art Academy from Kazakhstan, the I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography from Romania, Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture, State University of Culture and Arts from Azerbaijan, University of Television and Film from Munich (HFF Munchen), Germany, Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Moldova Music, Theatre and Fine Arts Academy,” the festival’s director noted.          

Svetlana Tirtau stressed that the films included in the schedule of ClassFest – (full-length and short-reel films) documentaries, fiction films, documentary-fiction movies, comedies, dramas, melodramas, horror films, mystic movies, cartoon films – represent complex, courageous, innovating, moving works, with an obvious artistic value, tackling relevant subjects and issues for communities and for the contemporary society. The screenings will be accompanied by discussions on the film’s topic, they way it was made, choices, reactions and decisions by characters, in order to stipulate the participants to wonder, analyze and discuss.   

Attending the event, the state secretary in the culture sector, Andrei Chistol, said that the ClassFest International Festival of Theatre and Film Schools was extraordinary, with a creative potential. The official highlighted that the reliability and performance of this event had been enhanced.  

The ceremony of opening of the ClassFest 2019 International Festival of Theatre and Film Schools will take place at the Geneza Art Theatre. All events of the festival will be held at the Music, Theatre and Fine Arts Academy, block II. Over 100 films will be screened at the festival.   

The festival, organized by the Music, Theatre and Fine Arts Academy, is traditionally backed financially by the Education, Culture and Research Ministry, Mihai Eminescu Romanian Cultural Institute, Interstate Fund of Humanitarian Cooperation of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Chisinau-based Russian Centre of Culture and Science, Polish Institute from Bucharest, Akzente German Cultural Centre from Moldova and the Goethe Institute of Romania.