Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. President of the Moscow International Film Festival, chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, film director Nikita Mikhalkov (right) and Indian film director, chairman of the jury of the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival Rahul Ravel (left) during the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. President of the Moscow International Film Festival, chairman of the Union of Russian Cinematographers, film director Nikita Mikhalkov (right) and Indian film director, chairman of the jury of the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival Rahul Ravel (second left) during the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. President of the Moscow International Film Festival, chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, film director Nikita Mikhalkov (right) and Indian film director, chairman of the jury of the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival Rahul Ravel (left) during the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Irina Grineva on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actor Kuzma Saprykin on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actors Ksenia Alferova (left) and Yegor Beroev (right) on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Irina Gorbacheva on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Elena Podkaminskaya on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Director Alexei Uchitel on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Polina Borunova on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Darya Poverennova (left) and CEO of the National Alliance for Social and Environmental Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Sustainable Development Andrei Sharonov on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actors Viktor Vasiliev (left) and Anna Snatkina on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Nastasya Samburskaya on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Ekaterina Guseva on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Anna Khilkevich on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Director Svetlana Druzhinina on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Producer Ilya Bachurin on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. MIFF president, chairman of the Union of Russian Cinematographers, film director Nikita Mikhalkov (left) and actress Irina Kupchenko during the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Alena Vodonaeva (left) on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Ekaterina Madalinskaya at the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. TV presenter, editor-in-chief of the Kinoreporter magazine Maria Lemesheva (left) at the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Member of the Moscow City Duma, artistic director of the Theater of the Moon Yevgeny Gerasimov (left) on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Svetlana Stepankovskaya at the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Actress Yevgenia Akhremenko on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Guests on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Opening ceremony of the 45th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) at the Moscow Musical Theatre. President of the Moscow International Film Festival, chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, film director Nikita Mikhalkov (right) and Indian film director, chairman of the jury of the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival Rahul Ravel (left) during the ceremony.