Winners of the 26th Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr (7-14 July, 2015)
Filmmaker Anna Melikyan won the grand prize Sunday, June 14 of the 26th Kinotavr Open Russian film festival for her film “About Love,” an anthology of five short stories. It also received Prize of Film Distributor’s Jur.
The annual Kinotavr is the most important Russian film festival and also the world’s largest of national cinema. In 2014, Anna Melikyan won the best director prize at Kinotavr (Star /Zvezda).
Antipode’s films were awarded prizes – for Best Direction, for Best Debut, for Best Actor, Gorin Prize for the Best Script, Prizes of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Scholars Elephant:
MAIN PRIZE OF FESTIVAL KINOTAVR
– ABOUT LOVE by Anna Melikyan
Prize for Best Direction
– ANGELS OF REVOLUTION by Alexei Fedorchenko
Prize for Best Debut
– THE GULLS by Ella Manzheeva
Prize for Best Actress
– POLINA GRISHINA (“Salvation” by Ivan Vyrypaev)
Prize for Best Actor
– MALE ENSEMBLE CAST: VASILY BUTKEVICH, ALEXANDER PAL, PAVEL CHINAREV, IVAN YANKOVSKY (“Rag union” by Mikhail Mestetsky)
Prize for Best Cinematography
– ANDREY NAYDENOV (ЋThe findЛ by Viktor Dement)
Gorin Prize for the Best Script
– VASILY SIGAREV, ANDREY ILIENKOV (“The land of OZ” by Vasily Sigarev)
Tariverdiev Prize for the Best Film Music
– PUPPET SYNDROME by Elena Khazanova
Special Diploma of the Jury
– “14+” by Andrey Zaytsev (“To the talented and sincere view on the generation of the social network “Vkontakte”, to the film which cognizes the eternal values of love”)
Prize of Film Distributors Jury
– ABOUT LOVE by Anna Melikyan
Prizes of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Scholars Elephant
– THE LAND OF OZ by Vasily Sigarev
– ANGELS OF REVOLUTION by Alexey Fedorchenko
Diploma of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Scholars
– PIONEER HEROES by Natalia Kudriashova