Igor Soukmanov

Igor Soukmanov (Belarus)is a film expert, publicist, festival organizer and journalist member of the European Film Academy, founding member of the newly established Belarusian Independent Film Academy. He is a permanent writer of a film magazine Iskusstvo Kino (Film Art), one of the earliest European journals that specializes in film studies. He graduated in film history from Moscow’s renowned Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). In 1999-2004 he hosted weekly shows on motion pictures for a variety of radio stations and TV channels in Minsk. For 11 years (2010-2020) he served as program director for the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk, which has represented cinema of either ex-USSR territories or having common communism heritage countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, including China, Cuba, etc. Since 2022 he serves as an Advisory Board Member of programming at the Odesa IFF and a senior programmer of the Warsaw IFF.