The festival of voices of young cinema, which took place in Vologda and Cherepovets from July 6 to 9, has ended. Festival screenings, concerts, lectures and an exhibition drew 5,000 spectators. The winners of the contest show were chosen by the audience.
According to the voting results, the drama “Ada” was recognized as the best film. The best director was Stanislav Svetlov for the film “Hell”. “Best role” – Khadizhi Batayeva for the film “The cage is looking for a bird.” Khadija is the first Chechen actress to receive such an award. In the short film program, two films got the same number of votes: “Nine Girls on the Edge of Reality” by Dasha Dyachok and Olga Peretyatkova and “The Fugitive” by Salome Kinsurashvili.
“The viewer chose the winners, and it was their right and even their duty. It is especially important to be aware of the choice in the acting nomination, where the Chechen girl Khadija Bataeva from the film “The Cage is Looking for a Bird” by Malika Musaeva won. This is a very important act of solidarity and sympathy for the plight of women in the Caucasus. As for the winner’s film, we will show Youth Hell as part of the KARO.Art project at the Oktyabr film center on July 14,” said Sergey Deshin, curator of film programs.
This year the festival was held for the tenth time. The Voices guest of honor was director Alexander Sokurov, who presented the new film “Fairy Tale” and held a creative meeting with Vologda residents. The world premiere of the restored director’s version of the film “Taurus” took place in the Kremlin. In the Vologda pre-trial detention center, Alexander Nikolayevich told the prisoners about his creative path, and also presented The Tale.
Meetings organized in conjunction with the Lecture Hall project became a separate part of the Voices programme. The speakers were the librarian Nikolai Solodnikov, the urban planner Pavel Gnilorybov, the film critic Nikolai Izvolov, the composer Anatoly Dziuba and the director Alexander Miroshnichenko. Now the exhibition project of the festival continues to work in Vologda. The St. Petersburg architect Yevgeny Neimand brought to the art gallery a photo exhibition “Identity. Yevgeny Neymand’s photo trip to the Kingdom of Burma and Northern Russia.
Recall that the Individuum publishing house will hold a book festival in DK “Rassvet”. It will take place on July 15 in honor of the anniversary of the printing press. We talk about it in more detail here.
