Alexey Petrenko, Natalia Bondarchuk and Stanislav Lyubshin will introduce more than 30 full-length and short films - including a number of children's films and classics - during the four-day event.

The best films from the festival will be shortlisted by the panel of judges - headed up by cinema director Konstantin Lopushansky - and the winner will be given a statue by Gregory Pototsky, the famous Russian sculptor.

The festival, organised by the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, together with the Green Carnation fund for developing cultural, educational and ecological initiatives and the international fund for social programmes, is part of the Sochi 2010-2014 Cultural Olympiad programme, being held in honour of the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

The main theme of the festival is the relationship between people and nature.

Among the main tasks of Green Carnation is the creation of a Russian cultural-ecological project, set up in an attempt to change the public's perception of ecological matters.

The films were selected by a co-ordination committee headed by Vyacheslav Shmyrov, the festival's artistic director and a film critic.

They will be shown in various air pavilions around Sochi, which simultaneously act as unique film sets, while the multi-media technology of the full dome theatre ensures the high quality of the show.

The Green Carnation festival of ecological cinema is the first part of the large Green Art cultural-ecological festival being held as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Sochi.


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