Films by Directors from Georgia and Estonia won the Grand Prix KINO in Geneva

Elizabeth Isakov. Comedy Blind Dates ( " blind Dates " ) Georgian Director Levan koguashvili and Estonian drama Kertu - Love is Blind ( " Certo " ) Ilmar of Raaga won the Grand Prix at the film festival post-Soviet film " KINO. Films from Russia ", organized by the Neva Foundation in Switzerland.
Blind Dates tells about the adventures of a 40-year-old Sandro, who lives with his parents and tries to find love through online Dating sites on the Internet. In Kertu - Love is Blind main character is a girl who lives in the wilderness, oppressed by his authoritarian father, and tries to find love together with the local drunkard and will as marginal.

Especially international jury noted drama Yuri Bykov " Fool ", which has already won an award at the Locarno film festival in the last month of summer.

the award for best directing feature films have divided the citizens of Russia Ivan Tverdovsky for the film " the Class correction and Nigina Saifullaeva for the film " My name ". The best documentary films became " the Last armored car of a representative class " Russian girls Daria Khlestkina about the automobile plant ZIL " and " Twilight " Ukrainian Director Valentine Vasyanovich about the lives of the elderly in the Ukrainian countryside. The award for the best documentary film Director has received Russian Director Askold rates for the film " Leyland " about the history of the famous Lenin Museum, opened in Gorki near Moscow in 1927.

award audience award was unanimously given the Comedy " B/W " Director Eugene Seljacina. The film tells about the intricacies of the fate of the Russian nationalist Yaroslav and Caucasian rogue Nurick.

The second international film festival " KINO. Films from Russia and not only " takes place in Geneva and Lausanne with 10 to 19 October. Just at the festival were shown 40 paintings from Directors from Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Estonia. As emphasized by the organizers of the show, its main aim is to bring people together, despite the contradictions and misunderstanding, " has become the most important in the present tense period in the international environment ".


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