"Listapad 2011" closing ceremony will take place on November 12,2011 at 5 p.m. at the Palace of the Republic. Ukrainian actor Ostap Stupka and well-known Belarusian actress and anchorwoman Vera Polyakova will host the event. Awards will be presented to winners in an unforgettable atmosphere of jazz band "Apple Tea". Country officials as well as special guests of the Festival will appear on stage. The closing film is "Service Entrance " by French director Philippe Le Guay, who will present the film to the Belarusian public himself on November 12, 2011 at 7.30 p.m. in the cinema "Tsentralnу". 

Paris,1960s. Jean-Louis Jouber (Fabrice Luсhini), stockbroker and family man, finds out that six cheerful Spanish women live on the sixth floor of his house. Thanks to Mary, a young woman who works in his home, he discovers the world of passions, which is very different from the mundane existence. Moved by these women full of life he gives freedom to his feelings for the first time and enjoys simple pleasures of life. But can you really change your life being 45 years old?

MIFF “Listapad”presents a wide range of French films. There’s “Tomboy” by Celine Sciamma  in the programme of “Youth on the march”, art-blockbaster “Black Heaven” by Gilles Marchan and closing film “Service Entrance”, to name but few. 

There’s also a special present from our guests from France – a unique cinematographic performance “Georges Melies”, timed to the anniversary of maestro. 

Georges Melies is one of the most outstanding personalities of the world cinema. Between 1896 and 1913 he produced 520 films for which he also was an actor. He was the first one to use the camera to make the feature film and invented numerous tricks which became a basis for modern special effects.

On November 9 there is a screening of a documentary telling about Hungarians with Down syndrome in the “Centre Video” (shopping mall “Stolitsa”, Nezavisimosti Sq) at 3.30 p.m. After the screening there’s a theatrical performance by Belarusian children with Down syndrome.

In contrast to the common belief, Down syndrome is not the end of the world. People with this disease live and develop in a special way and they can be talented and creative, which will be proved after the screening. Belarusian children with Down syndrome are ready to show their creative skills in a small performance they prepared. Hopefully, they will manage to break stereotypes about the disease and make people look at them in a different way.

In the framework of MIFF “Listapad” actor, producer and the head of TV and Radio Broadcasting organization of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Igor Ugolnikov will deliver a masterclass. The event will take place on November 11 at 3 p.m. at “The House of Moscow” (86 Kommunisticheskaya St.).

Igor Ugolnikov will share some of his professional secrets:

- How to become professional on TV?

- How contemporary TV differs from the Soviet one?

- What is “TV for the public”?

- Is the censorship necessary on TV and in the cinema?

- What is TV rating and what is it used for?

- How the movie “Brest Fortress” was made?

- What are the peculiarities of contemporary series?