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MINSK, 16 October (BelTA) – Famous Russian producer, screenwriter and director Valery Todorovsky will lead the international jury of cinematographers of the fiction film competition program at the 21st Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, BelTA learned from the organizers of the festival.

Valery Todorovsky produced 15 feature films and over 60 television projects, directed nine movies.

Films by Valery Todorovsky were included in the Minsk film festival competition program four times. Among them are movies Lyubovnik (Lover) and Moscow Nights. For example, films by Kira Muratova became participants of the film festival five times. Valery Todorovsky received the Listapad Grand Prix for the film Land of the Deaf. Other movies were awarded special prizes of the international forum.

Valery Todorovsky also directed such popular movies as Stilyagi and Tiski.

In 2013 the film of Valery Todorovsky’s producer studio The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (directed by Alexander Veledinsky) was a success in Minsk. The shooting of the famous film Chagall-Malevich (directed by Alexander Mitta) took place in Belarus.

Valery Todorovsky was the producer of such films and TV projects as Brigada TV series, adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, and the Ottepel TV project.

The jury of the fiction film competition program will include five people.

The 21st Minsk International Film Festival Listapad will take place on 7-14 November. The accreditation of mass media representatives will finish on 18 October. The main organizer of the festival is the center of visual and performing arts "ART Corporation”. Founders are the Culture Ministry, the Minsk City Council, with the participation of the Belarusian TV and Radio Company, National Film Studio Belarusfilm, Belarusian Union of Cinematographers.