Among the honorable guests of the festival were film legend Claudia Cardinale, one of the most well regarded stars of Italian and French cinema, Atom Egoyan, Semih Kaplanoglu, Claire Denis, Armen Medvedev, Rob Nilsson and Stanislav Govorukhin.
She became known after starring in Stanislav Govorukhin's movie Bless the Woman (2004), for which she received a nomination for the Nika Award and continued her career with the role of clairvoyant Cassandra in the historic television series Mascot Love (2005).
Guests of honor at the event included Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Advisor to the Russian President Arkady Dvorkovich, People’s Artist of Russia actor and director Stanislav Govorukhin, movie director Yuli Gusman, former lawmaker and radio host Alexei Mitrofanov, politician and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and other notable persons.
Stanislav Ioudenitch | Stanislav Govorukhin | Stanislav Belkovsky | Stanislav Shushkevich | Stanislav Lyubshin | Stanislav Grof | Stanislav Gribkov | Stanislav | Stanislav Sucharda | Stanislav Štrunc | Stanislav Prychynenko | Stanislav Petrov | Stanislav Nedkov | Stanislav Markelov | Stanislav Lunev | Stanislav Lakoba |
One of them withdrew shortly before the deadline, so 11 candidates took part in the elections: Vladimir Putin, Gennady Zyuganov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Amangeldy Tuleyev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Konstantin Titov, Ella Pamfilova, Stanislav Govorukhin, Yury Skuratov, Alexey Podberezkin, and Umar Dzhabrailov.