After the premiere on the 30th Moscow International Film Festival "The Orchard" was invited to the plenty of film festivals. That is not amazing, as the film has been considered to be a new view of the Chekovs play and the cinematography itself.

"Ine the family circle" is a national program, that includes the International Festival of family and children"s cinema.

Producer - film composer Andrey Sigle bewail the death of Alexander Solzhenitsin together with his family, friends and the whole country.

The 4th International Film Festival in Sevastopol takes place July 17-23, 2008.

The film "Alexandra" by Alexander Sokurov has been officially invited to Bergen in Norway. The festival wants to invite Mr. Sokurov and would love to have him participate in a Master Class.

26 May 2008 magazine SPb Sobaka.RU awarded the nomimamts of the award “Sobaka.RU TOP50: The most popular people of Saint-Petersburg”.
Producer and cinema music composer Andrey Sigle also was in this list. He producer such films as “The sun”, “The Ugly Swans”. “Alexandra”, “Crime and Punishment”, “The Orchard”.

Alexander Sokurov’s film “Alexandra” was screened during the12th Sophia International Film Festival (March 6-27)

Official screening of the film for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will also host esteemed guests from the film community and the world of classical music on November 11th, at the Majestic Crest Theatre (1262 Westwood Boulevard, Westwood, CA 90024) at 7:30 PM, followed by an invitation only reception at the Regency Club (10900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024), West Side’s Premier Private Club.

 An international film festival Eurasia – 2007 took place from 23rd to 29th of September in Almaty (Kazakhstan).

"The Ugly Swans" participated in the competitive programme Midnight Madness at the film festival of the city Espoo Cine, which took place from 21-26th of August in Espoo, Finland.

A festival took place from 3rd-8th of July, at the open-air, with unprecedented success: more than 17 000 people visited it!

The Ugly Swans was screened at the 10th Shanghai international film festival in a non-competitive section of Panorama programme.

The Festival will take place in Switzerland in Neuchâtel from 3rd to 8th of July. The Ugly Swans participates at the main competition programme.

The film Ugly Swans won the first prize of the festival Printemps Russe-Vesna! Festival took place from 30 may -5 june in Paris.

 The Ugly Swans participated at the 20th anniversary Singapore Film Festival which took place from 18-30th of April.

Also Russia will be presented by the film of Andrey Zvyagintsev “The Banishment”. Festival will take place from 16th to 27th in the palace of Congresses at the Croisette embankment in Cannes.
The art-director of the festival Thierry Fremaux announced that he is glad that “russian cinematograph, which has such great traditions, is coming back in the competitive programme of our 60th anniversary festival”.
“An appearance of russian films at the screens in the competitive section is an evidence of the authentic revival of the russian cinematography, represented by two films: of venerable director Alexander Sokurov and Andrey Zvyagintsev a young, but already took action director”, - Fremaux said.

Proline-film Studio started a new project by Alexander Sokurov – “Alexandra”.
The works on this project will continue till December, 2006, the shootings will be held in the Caucasus region in July and August of this year.

The shooting of “The Ugly Swans” has been completed.

The shooting of “The Boar” video film of eight series has been successfully accomplished. Producer Dmitry Svetozarov proceeded to the montage process.

Mikhail Gorbachev declared about support of the project “The Ugly Swans”.

On the initiative of Andrey Siegle – a film music composer from Saint-Petersburg - a creative meeting of the Russian composers with legendary and well-known maestro Michael Legrand was held on the 29^th of May.