M2M – Message to Man Fest Awards
The festival in St. Petersburg is over and awards were announced yesterday after a grandiose (experienced through photos on Facebook) closing evening that had Viktor Kossakovsky’s “Aquarela” on the program, of course, this is his home town!
Grand Prix and the Student Jury prize went to Hungarian “A Woman Captured” by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, it must be one of (if not THE) most winning documentaries of the last year. If you want to read what I wrote on this site about the film:
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4093/
There were 3 awards for the Russian documentary “White Mama” by Evgenia Ostanina and Zosya Rodkevich – Best full length documentary, TV Kultura and Fipresci. Here is the synopsis of the film: “Alina and her family have been put under severe strain. The woman, who has six black-skinned children born out of her relationship with an Ethiopian man, decides to adopt a white boy with mental health problems. Will the characters have enough good will and sufficient child-raising skills to tame – and love – the little tyrant? A film for those who have nerves of steel as it takes viewers to the very centre of the family hell.”
The festival has not yet published the whole list of winners, check it on the website or on FB.
