Films from CIS & Baltic States to be presented at Kinoshok-2010.

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ANAPA, the Krasnodar territory, September 20 (Itar-Tass) - "The
Eurasian", a film by Lithuanian film director Sarunas Bartas, has won the
'Golden Wine' award at the 19th open festival of films from the CIS
countries and the Baltic States.
The Lithuanian-Russian-French production won the award in a category
of full-length films. Pavel Kaplevich, the fesitval's jury head, called
"The Eurasian" a rela picture about big human destiny made by a true
master. The film director himself wrote a script for his film. Fourteen
films were nominated for a prize in this category. They included "Silent
Souls" ("Ovsyanki" in the Russian version) by director Alexei Fedorchenko
and "Elizium" by Andrei Eshpai.
"Silent Souls" or "Ovsyanki" in the Russian version tells the story of
two men from a remote Russian province who are on their way to the
cemetery to bury a woman named Tanya whom they both loved. They are going
to bury her according to the Ugro-Finnic tradition of the Russian north.
The film is a screen version of a novel by Denis Osokin. Mikhail Krichman,
the film's cameraman, was awarded Venice's "Ozella" prize for the best
film photography.
Mikhail Krichman worked together with Andrei Zvyagintsev whose film
"The Return" won the Venice Golden Lion Award back in 2003.
The film show in Anapa, which is better known as "Kinoshok-2010", had
worked for a week and closed on Sunday, September the 19th.
"For the past 19 years the festival has been one of the most
important, respected and representative cinema forums in the post-Soviet
territory. It opens new names in modern cinema industry and offers a good
chance to see new works by world's famous film directors," playwright and
director Viktor Merezhko, the festival's director, told Itar-Tass.