Putin Critic Alexander Sokurov Shuts Film Foundation
The 'Faust' and 'Russian Ark' director said lack of funding and"unfriendliness and aggressiveness" from Russia's culture ministry promoted the move., a prominant critic of President Vladimir Putin, announced that he is shutting down his independent film foundation, Primer Inotnatsii , amid pressure from Russia's culture ministry.
Sokurov set up the foundation in 2013 to support young Russian filmmakers. It has helped produce several shorts and feature-length films, including Kantemir Balagov's, which won the international critics award for Cannes' Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2017. But the foundation has suffered from a lack of funding and has come under fire from Russia's culture ministry. Last year, police in St. Petersburg launched a investigation into the foundation on charges Sokurov was using the organization to embezzle fund earmarked for film production. The probe foundMany viewed the investigation as an attack on Sokurov for his ongoing and vocal criticisms of Vladimir Putin.
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