“My Friend Boris Nemtsov” by Zosya Rodkevich (2016, Estonia-Russia) received Special Mention by Jury of the European Documentary Competition at Odessa International Film Festival (July 15-23, 2016).
This year’s new competition section dedicated to European documentaries was judged by a jury comprising the Dutch-based documentary doyenne Rada Sesic, Docudays UA directo Gennadiy Kofman, and the esteemed Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Razbezhkina, which presented its Golden Duke for Best European Documentary to Charles Redon’s first feature documentary In California, with a special mention given to Zosja Rodkevich’s feature debut My Friend Boris Nemtsov about the assassinated Russian opposition leader.