Sitora Shokhinovna Alieva () – film expert, director of the IFF “Faces of love” and the IIF Sochi, artistic director of the largest Russian national film festival “Kinotavr”, official delegate of Warsaw International Film Festival, lecturer at film schools and universities, juror at numerous film festivals, including Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, etc. Member of European Film Academy.
Biography
Sitora Alieva was born in 1963 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. She made her film debut as an actress at the age of 7. In the following 9 years she had played about ten roles in different art and television films. In 1987 Alieva graduated from the scriptwriting and film history department (Evgeniy Surkov's class) of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Then she worked for Tajikfilm in Dushanbe and in 1991 promoted Tajik films at different venues around the world including Moscow International Film Festival.Алиева: Благодаря таджикскому кино я попала в поле фестивальной жизни, Rus4all
In 1991 she moved to Moscow and then began to work as Daniil Dondurey's, "Iskusstvo Kino" editor-in-chief, referent (1993-1996). In 1993 she began to work at “Kinotavr” conglomerate ran by Mark Rudinstein, and in 1999 became the director of its festival branches: IFF Sochi, IFF “Faces of Love” and the International Children's Arts Festival “Kinotavrik” (1999-2005).Sitora Alieva at Kinotavr official website
In 2005, after the “Kinotavr” brand was bought by Alexander Rodnyansky, only Russian part of the festival was left, IIF Sochi and IFF “Faces of Love” were stopped. Alieva has become the permanent artistic director of the Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr” – the largest national film festival of the country for now (the edition of Kinotavr-2022 is cancelled)."Kinotavr" film festival. Profile, TASS News AgencyKinotavr fest’s focus is local pix, VarietyRussia's biggest local film festival starts, The Hollywood Reporter
Also, as a film expert and a festival professional, she lectures in RussiaMoscow School of New CinemaЛаборатория PROкино and abroad.University of PittsburghCinemadaMare X edizione, Salvatore Verde presidente della giuria del festivalRussian film week in Tajikistan
Since 90-s Alieva has been taking part in juries of numerous international, national, the CIS and the Baltics, student and short film festivals, including: 2002 - Hyderabad International Film Festival 2005 - Tallinn Black Nights Film FestivalTallinn Black Nights Film Festival Official website 2006 - Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2006 - European Film Festival Palic 2006 - Cottbus Festival of Eastern European CinemaCottbus sets sail on 16th Eastern journey, Cineuropa 2007 - 57th Berlin International Film Festival 2007 - 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival22nd Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata Catalog 2007 - Zurich Film FestivalZurich Film Festival: Highlights, Variety 2007 - Artfilm 2008 - 13th International Film Festival of KeralaCurtain to go up on film fete, The HinduKerala 2008 awards, FilmFestivals.com 2009 - 66th Venice International Film FestivalVenice shorts section opens with Bahrani's Plastic Bag, Screendaily 2009 - Reykjavík International Film FestivalRIFF 2009 Awards, Morgunblaðið 2010 - F5 Short Film Festival Конкурс короткометражного кино на F5 2011 - Filmfest MünchenLe Havre, In A Better World amongst winners at Filmfest Munchen, Screendaily 2011 - 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2011 - 27th Warsaw Film FestivalPRIZE WINNERS of the 27th WARSAW FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2012 - Let's CEE Film FestivalLET’S CEE Film Festival 2012 - 9th Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2012 - Batumi International Art-House Film Festival Batumi International Art-House Film Festival News 2013 - Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad”THE PRESENTATION OF FILM FESTIVAL “KINOTAVR” AND A MASTER CLASS BY SITORA ALIYEVA 2013 - 2morrow/Завтра Film Festival "2morrow/Завтра" расскажет о трудных подростках и жестокой любви 2013 - Scanorama European Film ForumПрограммный директор «Кинотавра» Ситора Алиева: «Я никогда не согласна с жюри!» 2014 - VIII Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival Zerkalo (Zerkalo Film Festival)PRESS CONFERENCE OF VIII ANDREY TARKOVSKY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ZERKALO (“THE MIRROR”) 2015 - Sofia International Film FestivalSofia International Film Festival 2016 - "Slovo" AwardВ Москве пройдет третья церемония вручения сценарной премии «Слово» 2017 - Reykjavík International Film FestivalReykjavik film festival kicks off with I Killed My Mother 2018 - El Gouna Film FestivalEl Gouna Film Festival Jury 2018 - 2nd Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, The Chinese Central Government's Official Web Portal 2020 - Golden Raven Arctic International Film Festival 2020 - Pacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries 2021 - Warsaw International Film Festival
In 2007-2010 Sitora Alieva had been Russia's official delegate of the Rome International Film Festival.Sitora ALIEVA at Kinoglaz.fr
Strating from 2007 - official delegate of the Warsaw International Film Festival.
Having such an active international festival life, being part of an extensive international festival network and the main national film festival selector at the same time make Sitora one of the key figures in promoting new Russian cinema at the international film festival scene.Kinotavr 2011: Russian Cinema as a State of Mind, KinoKultura
References
External links Sitora Alieva at Kinotavr film festival official website Sitora Alieva on Andrey Zvyagintsev for The New York Times, The New York Times Love letters to Hitchcock: film experts’ video interviews at the «Hitchcock 9» film festival, British Council in Russia Fifteen Realities of Russian Cinema (Kinotavr 2012), KinoKultura