April 2nd, 2019, Moscow, Russia
On April 2nd the Moscow hotel Standard hosted the first official press conference as a part of the upcoming Moscow International Film Festival. The purpose of the event was to reveal the names of the judges for the Main Film Program, Documentary and Short Film Programs, as well as the movie list included in these programs. The judges’ names pronounced included South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki–duk, British documentary filmmaker Kevin Sim and Turkish film director Semih Kaplanoglu.