About us
AURA International Film Festival will be held in several Russian cities: Sochi, Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar.
Film screenings will take place on the Black Sea coast at outdoor venues and in cinemas.
Each film selected for the film festival will be screened 5 times in 5 southern cities.
AURA Film Festival is a review competition of films received evaluation by the Selection Committee.
The organizer of the film festival is the film company «Catharsis». Director Galina Fesenko.
The Festival’s aim is to support cinematographers and to contribute to the development and promotion of film industries.
The film festival focuses on a variety of themes and genres.
It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations.
We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. Semi-finalist films will not be screened but will receive our festival laurels.



The final decision on the inclusion of the film in the Festival competition program is made by the Selection Committee which reserves the right not to explain the reason for the refusal and not to give any comment.
The winners are chosen by the organizing committee of the film festival.
The winners receive valuable prizes from sponsors and partners, laurels and diplomas.
You can only send an application for entry through the platform filmfreeway.comThe final decision on the inclusion of the film in the Festival competition program is made by the Selection Committee which reserves the right not to explain the reason for the refusal and not to give any comment.
You can only send an application for entry through the platform filmfreeway.com
Cities of film screenings

Sochi
Tchaikovsky str., 7, school No. 7 named after A.P. Moskvin, summer playground of the cinema club «Oxygen»

Gelendzhik
Krasnogvardeyskaya str., 89, children’s camp «Niva»

Krasnodar
Sormovskaya str. 12/11, Krasnodar Youth Center

Novorossiysk
City Palace of Culture, Sovetov str., 9
