The Yakut film “White Land” was awarded the special prize of the festival of documentary films “Russia”
On October 6, in Yekaterinburg, the closing ceremony of the XXXIII Open Documentary Film Festival “Russia” (OFDK “Russia”) took place. A special prize “For the Preservation and Development of Documentary Films” from the All-Russian TV channel “Promotion” was found the tape “White Land” by the Yakut director Ayaal Adamov.
The debut picture of the St. Petersburg State Film and Television Institute tells about the Day of the Reindeer Breeder, which takes place in the small village of Naiba on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
– A good documentary film is obtained when the director respects his hero, when he is interested in him and the director does not speculate on momentary and criminal prosecution. Of course, young directors can and should do this. We stand on this, because, alas, no one removed the change of breeds for us. I always welcome educated people or those who at least wanted to learn. We have something to learn, at least in terms of documentary films, and graduates of VGIK, film institutes of St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, VGIK branches in Rostov-on-Don, Yakutsk are our future replacement, our future cinema. If they want to be filmmakers, then they have someone to learn from, and we hope to see them in the future on the spot,” said Inna Demezhko, program director of the Rossiya Open Documentary Film Festival.
In addition to commemorative statuettes and diplomas, the winners of the nomination received the right to be premiered on the Prodvizhenie TV channel.
The main prize of the festival was awarded to the film “Ural wilds” of the documentary film studio “STAY. DOK (directed by Arseniy Kaydatsky and Yulia Sergina).