The manager of the Prim-Plan Studio company, Valeriu Jereghi, and the president of the Russian Film-Makers Union, Nikita Mikhalkov, recently signed, in Moscow, the first cooperation contract between the Moldovan and Russian film-makers, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Valeriu Jereghi, the contract provides for exchanging information on cultural events, exchanging experience in the artistic, organizational, legal areas. The parties also want to establish professional contacts among film-makers, to organize symposiums on the current situation of the cinematography in both countries, on reorganizing the units producing and disseminating movies in the new management conditions. In case of need, the signatories agreed to inform each other on their positions regarding certain issues of modern cinematography, debated at international forums. The two parties will jointly contribute to organize premieres, movie days, international movie festivals, to promote cinema studios from Russia and Moldova, to develop and expand production facilities. Valeriu Jereghi says the accord also provides for identifying topics and ways of joint implementation of cinema projects – feature movies, documentaries, cartoons. Moreover, the parties have decided to jointly organize training courses, lectured at by masters of the genre. The accord is valid 3 years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this has been the first cooperation accord between the Moldovan with the Russian film-makers, who had previously signed similar contracts with their counterparts from all the former Soviet republics.