Alexei Medvedev, film critic and curator of leading Russian film festivals, who disappeared in July 2023, was found dead in the Moscow Region. This has been reported area search and rescue team “Lisa Alert”.
by Telegram channel Basisrandom people found Medvedev’s body near the railway tracks.
How reportedSince July 23, 2023, the location of the film curator is unknown, he disappeared in Mytishchi, near Moscow.
Alexey Medvedev – organizer of the Sakhalin festival “Edge of the World”, St. He was the program director of the “Message to Man” festival in St. Petersburg, and the program director of the “Mirror” (2011) festivals. , “Two in One” (2009-1012), curator of the Russian cinema program in the Les cinemas du Monde section of the Cannes Film Festival, curator of the Russian short program of the Ajyal International Film Festival in Doha, member of the international jury Pilsen (Czech Republic), Film festivals in Cluj (Romania), Krakow (Poland), Warsaw.
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