[1] The president of Faces of Love, as well as of Kinotavr, is Russia's famous actor and producer Mark Rudinstein.
Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is an honorary president of the festival.
Every year, around 50 films from all over the world are being shown at the festival both in competition, screening and retrospective programs.
Faye Dunaway, Kate Winslet, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Alain Delon, Udo Kier, Brenda Blethyn, Chiara Mastroianni, Christopher Lambert among many others were jurors and guests of the festival over the history.
The following categories are awarded at the festival: Throughout the history of the festival, following films, actors and directors were awarded: Amores Perros directed by Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Julianne Moore and Dennis Haysbert for the best romantic duet in Far from Heaven, Maggie Gyllenhaal for the best actress in Secretary, The Isle directed by Ki-duk Kim, Michael Haneke for La Pianiste, Toni Collette and Gotaro Tsunashima for the best romantic duet in Japanese story, Asghar Farhadi for Beautiful City, Aleksandr Sokurov for Taurus.