Film
Film about post-Soviet Kyiv wins at film festival
A poster advertises this year’s edition of the Cottbus Film Festival.
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November 11, 2023 at 7:34 p.m
The film Forever-Forever about growing up in post-Soviet Kiev won the main prize at this year’s Cottbus Film Festival. The festival jury justified its choice by saying that director Anna Buryachkova’s film is a captivating coming-of-age story that shows the turmoil of the Eastern Bloc in the 1990s in an authentic, moving and well-constructed way. The main prize is worth 25,000 euros.
The Belarusian thriller It’s All Right won the festival’s short film competition. Dyad from Bulgaria won in the youth film category – a film about drug use, addiction, but also abuse and generational conflicts.
The winners were announced on Saturday. In the three competition categories feature film, short film and youth film, prizes totaling almost 70,000 euros were awarded.
This year, the 33rd Eastern European Film Festival featured 17 world premieres, and 59 works celebrated their German premiere. According to the organizers, a total of around 150 films from 40 countries have been shown since Tuesday.
2023-11-11 19:13:44
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