The directors of the future. Individualists and station wagons. Plakhov A.

Andrei Plakhov is one of the most authoritative journalists in the world of cinema, film critic and a film scoring for the best Russian and international media. Candidate of art history, taught film critics at VGIK. From 1977 to 1988 he worked as an editor of television department in the newspaper Pravda. From 1986 to 1990 - Chairman of the Conflict Commission on Creative Issues and Secretary of the Board of the USSR IC. He was more than once in the jury of international film festivals, and during the MMKF regularly performs with its own program of films. President of the International Federation of Cinema Premier (Fipers).

Author of many books about the history and theory of cinema. “The directors of the future”, which are collected in this book, have already taken place as the brightest stars of modern cinema, and tomorrow they will be called classics. Each of them represents a fundamentally different, formed only at the very end of the 20th century and the type of cinema -firing at the beginning of the XXI. Among the personalities of the collection are Sofia Coppola, Fatikh Akin, Alexei German Jr., Eng Lee, Kirill Serebrennikov, Stephen Sodelberg, Alejandro Gonzalez Injarrita, Guillermo Del Toro, Michelle Gondry, Matteo Garrona and other masters, who, according to the author of the book, Represent the face of today's and tomorrow's world cinema. They work on the verge of mass and elitism, respect traditions, but at the same time bring fresh ideas.