Igor Soukmanov is a well-known Belarusian film expert and journalist. He is a member of the European Film Academy and a President of the Belarusian section of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). Also, he is a permanent writer for the film magazine Iskusstvo Kino (Film Art), the oldest magazine in Europe that specializes in film studies. For eleven years (2010-2020), he was the program director of the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk, which in 2020 was canceled by the Belarusian authorities. Under his supervision "Listapad" presented the cinema of the former USSR or countries with a common communist past in Eastern Europe, Cuba, and Asia, including China, etc. Since 2021, Soukmanov is a member of the Program Advisory Board of the Odesa International Film Festival. Recently, he has joined the Warsaw Film Festival team as a Senior Programmer.