The Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant Artdocfest/Riga has introduced the award winners in its competitors programme. The Grand Prix went to Mission 200, a movie by Ukrainian director Volodymyr Sidko.
Supply: Sevgil Musaieva, editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, from the awards ceremony in Riga
Particulars: Mission 200 is a documentary that tells the story of Tetiana Pototska-Yevchuk, a volunteer from Lutsk who has been looking for the our bodies of fallen Ukrainian troopers and delivering them to their households for the reason that outbreak of the full-scale battle.
"Just like the mythological Charon who transports souls to the opposite aspect of the river Styx, she transports the our bodies of lifeless troopers. Travelling 1000’s of kilometres with out stopping or sleeping, she transports those that have accomplished their battle on this world and sends them on their final journey," the competition organisers stated.
The Finest Director Award went to Ukrainian administrators Tetiana Doronitsyna and Andrii Lytvynenko for his or her movie Everything Needs to Live, which tells the story of a lady who helps wounded and deserted animals within the battle.
The jury awarded a particular prize to Connected, a movie about Russian businessman Dmitry Zimin. Orhan Aghazadeh’s movie The Return of the Projectionist acquired a particular point out from the jury.
The Artdocfest/Riga Pageant jury members included Ivars Seletskis (Latvia), Christine Camdessus (France), and Sevgil Musaieva (Ukraine).
The programme additionally featured a number of different Ukrainian movies:
- Daddy's Lullaby by a Ukrainian-Romanian-Croatian workforce;
- Dear Beautiful Beloved by Austrian director Juri Rechinsky;
- In Limbo, a Polish manufacturing by Ukrainian director Alina Maksimenko.
The Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant Artdocfest was based in Russia in 2007. After the outbreak of Russia’s battle towards Ukraine in 2014, the competitors programme was screened in Riga for the primary time. In 2018, the complete competitors and the jury moved to Latvia.
Background: Volunteer Tetiana Pototska-Yevchuk advised her story in an interview with UP Kultura wherein the director of Mission 200 additionally mentioned the making of the award-winning movie.
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