The 24th Radonezh Film Festival was held in Moscow

The 24th Radonezh Film Festival was held in Moscow XXIV кинофестиваль «Радонеж» состоялся в Москве print version November 28, 2019 17:43 November 22-25, 2019 at the Cinema House of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation in Moscow, the XXIV International Festival of Film and Television Programs "Radonezh" was held . The film festival united around 300 film and television companies from all over Russia, near and far abroad. This year, 230 films and television programs from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Abkhazia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, and Lithuania were sent to the selection committee. Of these, 123 films were selected in the festival program. 54 films participated in the competition program, 50 films participated in the television competition. In addition to documentaries and television programs, 12 animated films and 12 short films were also featured in the competition. This year's jury included the chairman of the jury, film director V.I. Khotinenko, film actress V.I. Telichkina, TV journalist B.I. Kostenko, film director A.V. Bogatyrev, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation A.N. Zolotukhina, film critic T.O. Jensen, writer, Ph.D. D.M. Volodikhin, film director B.G. Krinitsyn, Archpriest Andrei Spiridonov, Archpriest Nikolai Germansky, publicist S.N. Komarov (Ukraine). The main award of the festival - the silver medal of St. Sergius of Radonezh - received seven nominees. The Grand Prix of the festival - the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the silver medal of St. Sergius of Radonezh - by unanimous decision, the jury received the film “Andrei Tarkovsky. Cinema as a Prayer ”(script and director Andrei Tarkovsky, Jr.). The prize for the best directorial work went to the film “Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Repentance ”(scriptwriter and director Sergei Miroshnichenko). The prize for the best cinematography was given to the film “Sky” (screenwriter Aleksey Malechkin with the participation of Ilya Lozinsky; directors Aleksey Malechkin, Sergey Linnikov). The prize for the best script went to the film "The New Martyrs" (scriptwriter Elena Chavchavadze; director Galina Ogurnaya). The jury noted the best animated film, which was the work of animators from St. Petersburg "Heavenly Joy (Barefoot Joy)" (script by Ekaterina Kalikinskaya; director and artist Natalya Fedchenko). In the television competition among the paintings of regional studios, the film “The Commemoration” was awarded (the authors of the idea are Tatyana Favstriyskaya, Elena Trostnikova; script and director Lyudmila Razgon). The best television movie of the central channels is “Don't Get Out of Here” (screenwriter Marina Trush; directors Marina Trush, Vladimir Samorodov). The special prize of the president of the festival - for a documentary - received the picture "Yuri Kublanovsky. Homeland is nearby ”(script and director Aleksey Burykin). Silver medal of St. The hero of the film, poet Yuri Kublanovsky “For Contribution to the Development of Russian Literature,” also received Sergius of Radonezh. The special prize of the jury chairman - for the documentary - went to the work "The Stalingrad Gospel of Ivan Pavlov" (script and director Vladimir Shuvannikov). The special prize of the festival’s general producer awarded the film “Vasily Shukshin. I’ve come to give you free rein ... ”(script by Oksana Shaparova; director Yuri Malyugin). In addition, Special prizes and diplomas of the synodal departments of the Moscow Patriarchate and public organizations in various categories were awarded. The festival was held with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Government of Moscow, and the Union of Russian Filmmakers.