Sitora Alieva

Sitora Shokhinovna Alieva (Russian: Ситора Шохиновна Алиева ) – film expert, director of the IFF “Faces of love” and the IIF Sochi, artistic director of the largest Russian national film festival “Kinotavr”, Russian Ministry of Culture film expert, lecturer at film schools and universities, juror at numerous film festivals, including Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, etc.

Already being a film expert for the Russian Ministry of Culture, in 2012 she had become an expert at the Festival Council of the Ministry. Also, as a film expert and a festival professional, she lectures in Russia and abroad.

In 2007-2010 Sitora Alieva had been Russia's official delegate at the Rome International Film Festival.

In 2005, after the “Kinotavr” brand was bought by Alexander Rodnyansky, only Russian part of the festival was left, IIF Sochi and IFF “Faces of Love” were stopped. Alieva has become the permanent artistic director of the Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr” – the largest national film festival of the country for now.

In 1991 she moved to Moscow and then began to work as Daniil Dondurey's, "Iskusstvo Kino" editor-in-chief, referent (1993-1996). In 1993 she began to work at “Kinotavr” conglomerate ran by Mark Rudinstein, and in 1999 became the director of its festival branches: IFF Sochi, IFF “Faces of Love” and the International Children's Arts Festival “Kinotavrik” (1999-2005).

Sitora Alieva was born in 1963 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. She made her film debut as an actress at the age of 7. In the following 9 years she had played about ten roles in different art and television films. In 1987 Alieva graduated from the scriptwriting and film history department (Evgeniy Surkov's class) of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Then she worked for Tajikfilm in Dushanbe and in 1991 promoted Tajik films at different venues around the world including Moscow International Film Festival.