About AMFEST

The American Film Festival – AMFEST – will be held for the fourth time this year.  In just three years Amfest has become the largest film festival, in terms of breadth and scale, devoted to a national film industry taking place in Moscow.

The annual American Film Festival has set itself an ambitious task: to introduce cinema audience to the best films which for various reasons were not screened in Russia. Many of the Hollywood films that are widely distributed in Russia have little or nothing to do with the everyday life of America.

The mission of the American Film Festival is to provide a more complete picture of American cinematic images than the standard fare offered in Moscow`s multiplexes.

Amfest is a non-competition event. The program showcases the best recent independent and documentary American films. Most of these films either are not shown in Russia or have a limited distribution. Therefore, the only chance for Russian cinema buffs to see these films is to go to Amfest.

Since 2007 Amfest was held at the Formula Kino Evropa multiplex, one of the biggest multiplexes in Moscow.