This year British Council is a cultural partner of Beat Film Festival, which presents a short selection of documentaries on music and contemporary culture from all over the world.

The festival will take place from 1st till 7th June at the “35 mm” cinema. The educational programme together with the open-air night screenings will take place at Strelka institute for media, architecture and design.

The festival’s goal is to promote new ways and methods that cultural scene can be documented on the screen and presented to the audience. The festival has no competition, its program represents an in-house choice of films that have been released within the past two years and have never been previously screened in Moscow. This year the programme of the festivals includes a number of films from USA, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, island and Poland, all of them will be screened in Russia for the first time.

One of the guests at Beat Film Festival is Romuald Karmakar – the famous German film director, the head of jury panel at the Berlinale this year. In the framework of the Beat Film Festival he will present his “Club trilogy” – three films about the night club culture in Germany and generally in Europe.

On 27th May, several days before the official opening of the festival there will be a secret screening of the “High on Hope” by Piers Sanderson.

For more information please visit the official web-site of the festival.