International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (Russian: Международный фестиваль фильмов о правах человека «Сталкер»), also translated as Stalker: International Film Festival on Human Rights and also known simply as Stalker or Stalker Film Festival, is a film festival held annually in Moscow and regional centres of Russia since 1995. Its focus is human rights and it is run by the Russian Guild of Film Directors. Stalker was established in the 1995 after a group of Russian filmmakers were examining the Soviet period of Russian history, in particular the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, in which many people were deprived of their liberty. The name is derived from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Stalker, which celebrates and emphasises the eternal and universal values of mercy and love for one's neighbour, and individuals' personal responsibility to society. In the film, a "stalker" is a professional guide to "the Zone", someone having the ability and desire to cross the border into the dangerous and forbidden place with a specific goal. The director said that "the Zone doesn't symbolise anything, any more than anything else does in my films: the zone is a zone, it's life". The intent of the festival was "an attempt to penetrate into 'the zone' little explored and exciting us all". More information...
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