The Russian film "Twelfth Summer" received the Grand Prix of the International Festival of Children's Cinema

The Grand Prix of the "Golden Swan" of the Moscow International Film Festival for Children and Youth is awarded to the game painting "Twelfth Summer". It was set by Russian director Pavel Fattahutdinov. Such a decision announced an international jury at an evening held on Sunday at the House of Cinema the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports.

The hero of the film - a 12 -year -old village schoolboy - meets a city girl who came on vacation, and from that moment his life promises to become unpredictable.

"This film, which can be called philosophical parables, returns us adults to the beautiful memories of childhood, about first love, poetry and the beauty of high feelings." This is the opinion of this tape of one of the members of the jury, the famous actor and director Vladimir Gostyukhin, who performed at the evening.

The jury awarded his special prize to the young actress Abby there, the main role performer in the film "Where is the horse of Santa Claus?" In the production of Dutch filmmakers. This is an adventure tape, which also affect the problems of the family, the relationship of children and parents.

Another special prize "For supporting children in difficult situations" members of the International Jury Dali Dali the Game "Jump" Norwegian director Peter Ness. The film shows the story of two teenage brothers, whose share of heavy trials fell, and they withstood them with honor.

The jury's diplomas were awarded the animation master from the UK and the USA for the film "The Adventures of Despero", as well as the director of Athens Olga Malea, the author of the film "Little Greek godfather".

In total, the jury, which was headed by Natalya Belokhvostikova, presented 11 new gaming and animated films shot in Austria, Denmark, Iceland, China, the USA and other countries.

Sunday ceremony is the end of only the first part of the festival, which will be held in Moscow for another 10 days. The films of the competitive and out -of -competition programs of the show will continue to be demonstrated in the cinemas "Roland" and "Five Stars".

On January 7, decisions of the children's jury consisting of schoolchildren and the parent-pedagogical jury will be announced in the House of Cinema.

The current festival holds the International Film and Television Development Fund for children and youth "Roland Bykov Foundation". The president of the review is the famous cinema figure Armen Medvedev.