MINSK, 8 November (BelTA) – The 23rd edition of the Minsk International Film Festival Listapad has named its first winners, BelTA learned from the organizers.
My Friend Yaniv by Maayan Schwartz from the Sapir School of Audio and Visual Arts won the award For the Best Film in the Youth Documentary Film Competition.
Time to Hear Silence by Yegor Byakov from Belarusian State Academy of Arts was given a diploma For the Author's Ability to Create a Special Atmosphere in a Film.
A diploma For the Best Camerawork was awarded to the film Fire directed by Nadya Zakharova from Moscow School of New Cinema.
The documentary Home by Anna Korzh from the Kiev National Film School of the National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Cinema and Television University got a diploma For the Unique Character and the Author's Ability to Tell a Story.
The international film school DOC NОMANDS was given a diploma For the Creative Approach and Development of Forms of Storytelling (Belgium, Portugal, Hungary).
The jury of the Listapad National Film Schools Competition included Alain Fleischer (France), Dorota Lech (Canada), and Galina Adamovich (Belarus).
Representatives of national film schools of different countries competed for the prizes of the National Film Schools Competition for the fifth time. This year's competition program featured works by young filmmakers from Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Israel and the international MA film school DOC NОMANDS that has branches in Portugal, Belgium and Hungary and students from all over the world. The list of contestants included representatives of the Sergei Bukovsky Documentary Workshop, the Kiev National Film School of the National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Cinema and Television University, Moscow School of New Cinema, the DOC NОMANDS international school, the Sapir Film School of Israel, and Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
The National Film Schools Competition was founded in 2012. Since its establishment, it has screened more than 50 films by students and alumni of different film schools of Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy and Finland.
