Films about Dalay Lama at The VI International Film Festival “Pacific Meridian”

VLADIVOSTOK. 30 July. VOSTOK-MEDIA. This year documentary films are widely presented at the Film Festival “Pacific Meridian”. Visitors will watch 9 remarkable films.
At the heart of all films laid stories of people of art, politics and religion: Chinese designer Ma Ke, world-famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, Russian artist Oleg Kulik, hero of Cuba and the Communist Revolution Che Guevara and etc. Special emphasis lies on remarkable film of the famous producer Vitaliy Manskiy “Dawn/Dusk”. This unique film makes you feel and understand the personality riveting attention of millions of people all over the world. Before picture-taking authors watched almost all films about Dalai Lama. And to everyone’s surprise no film showed this great person in close. They are all of film-manifest, historical excursus and biographical story genres. And none of personality. This became the heart of a film, introducing to personality of Dalai Lama XIV.
The film lasts 72 minutes and de bene esse has 2 parts.
The first part is a one day spent in the residency of Dalai Lama since the start of his day – 3 a.m. – till the dusk when Dalai Lama goes to bed. Film crew fixed morning fitness exercises, walking along the residence garden, prayers and meditations. Then audiences, mass media and pilgrim meetings. On that day Buddhist from Russia and Mongolia came to learn. At the end of a day they came back to his rooms in the residency and there happened a private talk about the Universe and a place of personality and religion in the modern world. The second part represents itinerary on the way from India through Russia and China recalling an evening talk with Dalai Lama. Vitaliy Manskiy is one of the most famous documentalists of Russia. His pictures were shown at more than 200 international festivals and honoured with more than 30 awards. Many of his works are produced along with France, Germany, Finland and other countries.
Vitaliy Manskiy works popularizing documentary films on TV. He is the author and creator of the project “Real Film”on the first TV channel. He contributed to the organization of the National premium “Laurel Branch” in the genre of nonplay cinema and TV; in 2006 Vitaliy Manskiy created a festival of nonformat films “Art Doc Fest”.