Sergei Loznitsa's "In the Fog" wins at Zerkalo film festival
IVANOVO. June 3 (Interfax) - Sergei Loznitsa's film "In the fog" has won the main prize at the Zerkalo (Mirror) International Film Festival named after Andrei Tarkovsky.
Producer Valentina Mikhalyova read out Loznitsa's address to the festival attendees. "It is a great honor for me to get this prize. I thank the jury for such a high appraisal of my work," Loznitsa said in his message.
As well as a statuette, the main prize winner will get a sum of 900,000 rubles in prize money.
Brazilian film "Southwest" by Eduardo Nunes has won the award for Best Director.
The prize for professional achievements and reflecting the paradoxicality of the human nature went to the "Lonely Planet" film by Julia Lokteva (U.S., Germany).
These winners too were awarded with prize money of 300,000 rubles.
The Best Cast award was won by the film "Open Doors and Windows" by Milagrus Mumenthaler (Argentina, Switzerland).
A special prize "For the Honest and Uncompromising Account of the Home Country's Long-standing Problems" went to the Israeli film, "Room 514" by Sharon Bar-Ziv.
The viewer's choice award was won by "From Thursday till Sunday" by Domingo Sotomayor (Chile, the Netherlands).
Ten films competed against each other in the main part of the festival: "The Alps" by George Lanthimos (Greece), "In the Fog" by Sergei Loznitsa (Germany, Russia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Belarus), "Top Floor, Left Wing" by Angelo Cianci (France, Luxembourg), "Mr. Lazar" by Philip Falardo (Canada), "Room 514" by Sharon Bar-Ziv (Israel), "Lonely Planet" by Julia Lokteva (U.S., Germany), "Open Doors and Windows" by Milagros Mumenthaler (Switzerland, Argentina), "From Thursday till Sunday" by Domingo Sotomayor (Chile, the Netherlands), "Southwest" by Eduardo Nunes (Brazil), "I led you home" by Tongpong Chantargkul (Thailand).
The festival opened with the film "Ivan's Childhood" by Andrei Tarkovsky. Other films shown at the festival included: "Faust" by Alexander Sokurov, "Boris Godunov" by Vladimir Mirzoyev, "Two Days" by Avdotya Smirnova, "Yelena" by Andrei Zvyagintsev, "The Conductor" by Pavel Lungin, "Once Upon Time There Was a Woman" by Andrei Smirnov and others.
This is already the sixth Zerkalo festival. This year it is taking place in Ples on May 29 - June 3.
The event has finally "found its permanent residence - the town of Ples," Festival President Pavel Lungin said at the closing ceremony. "Ples and Ivanovo created an atmosphere close to that of Tarkovsky's films," the director said.