The winners are going to be named; the Grand Jury, chaired by outstanding director Alan Parker, will face a hard task of selecting the best of 17 films.
The winner of the Future Success Program will also be named. This has been the first festival to include this program in the agenda. Russian director Alexei Uchitel, head of the jury for the program, said he wished there had been more than one award for seven qualified movies. He said he had hoped for a greater number of interesting works and tremendous spectator turnout proved that he was right to say that.
Best films will also be subject to reviewers' awards: the juries of the International (FIPRESSI) and Russian Federations of Film Press will name their winners, and there will also be a prize from the Federation of Russian Film Clubs.
Spectators will be polled to determine the Viewer's Choice Prize winner.
Traditionally, the closing ceremony will be held Sunday night in Moscow's Pushkinsky cinema, with the Russian fiction movie Night Watch (directed by Timur Bekmambetov, based on the book of the same name by prominent Russian fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko).
The scene of the mystic thriller is laid in contemporary Moscow, where magicians and wizards protect Muscovites from infernal creatures.
This year the Moscow International Film Festival is celebrating its 45th anniversary. Russia has presented three movies: Marina Razbezhkina's Harvest Time, Vladimir Mashkov's Daddy, and Dmitry Meskhiyev's Friends.
