Sitora Shokhinovna Alieva () – film expert, director of the IFF “Faces of love” and the IIF Sochi, artistic director of the largest Russian national film festival “Kinotavr”, official delegate of Warsaw International Film Festival, lecturer at film schools and universities, juror at numerous film festivals, including Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, etc. Member of European Film Academy. Biography 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. 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). 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 (the edition of Kinotavr-2022 is cancelled). Also, as a film expert and a festival professional, she lectures in Russia and abroad. Since 90-s Alieva has been taking part in juries of numerous international, national, the CIS and the Baltics, student and short film festivals, including: 2002 - Hyderabad International Film Festival 2005 - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2006 - Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2006 - European Film Festival Palic 2006 - Cottbus Festival of Eastern European Cinema 2007 - 57th Berlin International Film Festival 2007 - 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2007 - Zurich Film Festival 2007 - Artfilm 2008 - 13th International Film Festival of Kerala 2009 - 66th Venice International Film Festival 2009 - Reykjavík International Film Festival 2010 - F5 Short Film Festival 2011 - Filmfest München 2011 - 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2011 - 27th