The program is part of a separate program entitled "All the Cinemas of the World", which was inaugurated in 2005 and is dedicated to the presentation by invited countries of a wide range of their movies in a special pavilion.
"As a sidebar to the Official Selection, this program enables audiences to discover more amply the vast diversity of national film industries. For its second edition Tous les Cinemas du Monde welcomes seven new countries: Russia, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, Venezuela, Tunisia and Chile," the Cannes festival Web site said.
Audiences will also see Dust by Sergei Loban and The 9th Company by Fyodor Bondarchuk, as well as seven short films by young Russian cinematographers.
Mikhail Shvydkoi, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Film, said audiences were interested in Russian films, even though at Cannes they are just a fringe event to the official selection.
"Modern Russian cinema is certainly attractive to the European public," Shvydkoi said.
