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Dear journalists and other representatives of Mass-media!

6^th RUSSIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM FESTIVAL AND NORTHERN TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL will take place at September, 2008 in Salekhard, capital of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region.

Firsts five Russian Festivals were in Salekhard in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

And since the time of its formation RAFF is the only Russian full format competitive film festival representing rapidly developing genre of anthropological film. The most northern in the world festival has already become very popular and the internationally authoritative among Russian and foreign cinematographers, managers of culture, Arctic researchers. It is reputed as content art-intellectual film festival and effective social and cultural phenomenon, and it has received set of positive responses in Russia and abroad, its film-winners were shown on all-Russian and regional TV channels. Today RAFF serves, besides other purposes, as an experimental platform to search for new film-forms, to co-act in current search for identity and culture-building rather than just to reflect nostalgia for leaving cultural values.

Within the action of the associated festival “Salekhard-2006” the round–tables conference devoted such themes as “Anthropological cinema in Russia” also will take place.

Please, agree the conditions of participations in informative support with management of the festival, that is, send this entry form for press to us!