N.I.C.E. New Cinema Events returns to Russia full of renewed energy, despite the sense of uncertainty still lingering in our souls. Cinema intends to embody new stimuli in order to preserve its inner enthusiasm and magic: to this end, the N.I.C.E. Festival represents a unique moment for the promotion of the seventh art and of Italy’s contemporary culture across the world. This year the range of fiction, short and documentary titles includes feature films with a musical theme and thematic films tackling on women’s, gender and social rights.

All films were selected in line with an idea of cinema that becomes memory, a time machine, as a tool to redeem all the big and small stories that inhabit the world in which the meaning between protagonists and extras is often lost. The image of a community discussing and reflecting on epochal dynamics rises. We would like to underline how the crisis due to the pandemic, like every crisis, has once again put women in disadvantage, even in film production. Hence our difficulty in presenting an appropriate number of female works this year.

N.I.C.E. Festival has not let this past year’s events change its nature, perceiving cinema as a tool for humanity’s cultural redemption, and is working so that this edition can represent the seed for improvement and great upcoming projects, always with a window open to the world. Through its festivals and other initiatives, N.I.C.E. has always promoted the sensibilization of its audience as well as of students on issues of social relevance. From 2021, the special focus on social issues are organized in partnership with the ngo COSPE and the project CinematograFica, Cinema for gender equality in development.