Rudnik festival summed up

The winners of the I international festival of the debut documentary “Rudnik”, which took place on the island of Sviyazhsk in Tatarstan from August 16 to 20, were announced.

By decision of the jury of an international competition, which included a playwright and screenwriter Lyubov Kubomenko, poet and prose writer Edgar Bartenev and film critic, deputy chief editor of Colta.ru Mikhail Ratgauz, prizes received:

• Grand Prix for the best film of the festival (800 euros):
  "Fire", dir. Nadia Zakharova (60 min., Russia, 2016)

• Prize for the best full -length film (300 euros):
  "In the center of the cyclone", dir. Lisa Kozlova (44 min., Russia, 2016)

• Prize for the best short film (200 euros):
  “Through the flow: demon and me,” dir. Rocco di Mento (36 min., Germany, 2016)

Prizes were also awarded in three other nominations:

• Prize from the editorial office of the newspaper "Evening Kazan" (100 euros):
  "Bar in Kavasaki", dir. Sayaka Mizuno (40 min., Switzerland, 2016)

• A prize of spectator sympathy based on the results of the audience vote among the films of the out -of -competition program:
  "Nikolai and watermelon paradise", dir. Denis Platonikhin (44 min., Russia)

• Prize of anonymous film critic (200 euros):
  "Oleg Evgenievich", dir. Linara Bagautdinova (22 min., Russia, 2017)

The Rudnik festival was organized by the Center for Modern Culture "Shift", the Living City Foundation and the Museum-Reserve "Island-Grad Sviyazhsk" with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan

Partners of the festival: Embassies of Switzerland and Finland in Russia, the Polish Cultural Center in Moscow, the School of Documentary Films and Theater Marina Razbuzhkina and Mikhail Ugarov, the Foundation "Sordceando" and the company "Sister"