Sánkt-Peterbúrgskiy mezhdunaródniy kinofestivál; abbreviated as SPIFF) takes place as part of the Saint Petersburg international film forum.
This is Saint Petersburg's first competitive international festival for feature-length fiction films.
On 22 August 2013 media reported that Wentworth Miller would boycott the festival[1]—to protest against laws banning "homosexual propaganda" in Russia.
Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, France-Belgium The festival's closing film Shadow Dancer, 2012, dir.
James Marsh, Great Britain-Ireland The out-of-competition programmes showed films which displayed the most recent trends in world cinema as well as several retrospectives.