MOSCOW, November 9 - RAPSI, Alyona Yegorova. A court will hear on November 30 the appeal of the Film Directors' Guild against a dismissal of its $25.14 million lawsuit against the Moscow government, the court told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI).

The guild sued the Moscow government for the disruption of a luxury housing project in central Moscow.

The Moscow Commercial Court held against the guild's lawsuit on September 19 ruling that the statute of limitations expired.

According to the Film Directors' Guild Trading House Forum-XX, a claimant in the trial, the Moscow mayor's office signed investment contracts for the construction of an art center and hotel complex adjacent to the Christ the Savior Cathedral in central Moscow in 2000.

The Moscow city government and Forum-XXI entered into a 49-year lease agreement regarding the construction site.

The guild maintained that, pursuant to a government resolution, it invested in project engineering design and construction, but then Moscow authorities terminated the lease in 2005. Forum-XXI also said that interests for the loan granted by Kazakhstan's Kazkommertsbank are also part of the losses incurred.

A city spokesperson argued that the statute of limitations had expired because the lease agreement was declared null and void by the Supreme Commercial Court in November 2006.

Meanwhile, on September 2007 the court terminated a second lease contract, the Moscow government said.