New festival logo from 2006
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Location | Sochi, Russia |
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Language | Russian |
Website | http://www.kinotavr.ru/en/ |
Kinotavr (Russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991. It is the largest national film festival in Russia.
The word Kinotavr is a portmanteau (in Russian) of "Cinema" and "...taur" (as in Centaur or Minotaur).
Over the history the following prizes have also been awarded: