"Without prior agreement" and "Healthy person": the winners of the 44th MIFF became known

On Friday, September 2, the closing ceremony of the 44th Moscow International Film Festival took place at the Rossiya Theater.

During the ceremony, the laureates of this year's review were awarded.

The main prize, "Golden Saint George", was received by the film "Without prior arrangement" by Iranian director Behruz Shoaibi.

The film is about a woman named Yasmin, who returns from Germany to Iran after the death of her father, touches on the topic of immigration and connection with her roots.

Returning to his homeland, Yasmin begins to get to know his people in a new way, meet old acquaintances and reflect on the meaning of human life.

“Professionalism and courage won, as always, therefore the main prize for the best film “Without prior agreement”, directed by Behruz Shoaibi, Iran,” said Yevgeny Mironov from the stage.

In addition to the main prize of the review, the film was awarded the Prickly Look award by the Federation of Cinema Clubs.

In the framework of the competition "Russian premieres" "Silver St. George" received the film by Pyotr Todorovsky "Healthy Man".

In the center of the plot is the family man Yegor, who, after saving the girl, begins to feel needed and more alive.

He decides from now on to help everyone who needs it, but the new activity destroys his life and career.

The award for best director this year was awarded to the Serbian director Sinisa Cvetich, who shot the tape Beheading.

Also, the picture at the 44th review received the audience award.

• © Shot from the film "Healthy Man"

“The viewer sentences the film to history, if he does not say his word, then the film is threatened with oblivion.

If the viewer has their say, the film will go down in history.

And in the history of the 44th MIFF, the film of our guest from Serbia Sinisa Cvetich "Beheading" will definitely remain," TASS quotes the head of the selection committee of the MIFF Ivan Kudryavtsev.

The action in the film takes place on one day and in one place - the family celebrates the Beheading of John the Baptist.

The characters keep secrets from each other.

The youngest member of the Jovan family does not know about the divorce of his parents, and his mother and father do not even think about the drug addiction of their child.

The film starred Pavle Minsur, Boyan Zhirovich, Alexandra Balmazovich, etc.

This is the first feature film by a young filmmaker from Serbia.

The Special Jury Prize for Best Director went to Bangladeshi director Juboraj Shameem, while his film Instinct, about a crippled poor man who falls in love with the wife of a local drug dealer, won the Asian Film Promotion Association (NETPAC) Jury Award "for a compelling cinematic portrait of survival in modern reality" .

Costel Kashkaval was recognized as the best actor at the 44th MIFF, who played the role of Father George Kalchu Dumitryas in the film "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" by the Romanian director Cyprian Megi.

The Best Actress award went to actress Pega Ahangarani for her lead role in the film No Arrangement.

In the competition of short films, the film "Breeze" by the Iranian director Hamidrez Ghazemi, who graduated from VGIK, took the award.

The film tells about an Iranian who grew up in Europe and returns to his native land after the death of his parents.

The best documentary film was the film by Russian director Sergei Debizhev "The Holy Archipelago" about the Solovetsky Monastery.

• © Shot from the film "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness"

People's Artist of Russia, composer Eduard Artemiev was awarded a prize for his contribution to world cinema.

"Golden St. George" he received from the hands of director and producer Sergei Ursulyak.

The composer wrote music for such films as "Stalker", "Solaris", "Burnt by the Sun", "Courier", "The Barber of Siberia" and others.

In addition, Boris Akopov's crime drama "Kat" about a former prostitute who gave birth to a child and is trying to return to her previous work was awarded a special mention, and "The Voice of One Crying in the Desert" was awarded the prize of the jury of Russian film critics with the wording "for art and faith fighting for freedom".

The picture is dedicated to the hard life of a priest who became the voice of the people in the fight against an atheist state.

The prize of the Federation of Russian Cinema Clubs in the Russian Cinema Program was awarded to Robert Def's drama about a worker at a Moscow construction site, The Sun Will Come Tomorrow, and the Federation diploma was awarded to the film Youth by Dmitry Davydov, director from Yakutia, which tells about 40-year-old Vasily, who returned to his native village, where no one is waiting for him.

Konstantin Khabensky received a special award from the Moscow International Film Festival named after Konstantin Stanislavsky "I Believe" "for conquering the heights of acting and loyalty to the principles of the school of K. S. Stanislavsky."  

The main competition program of 2022 featured nine films from Russia, Sri Lanka, Romania, China, Serbia, Turkey, Germany and Slovenia.

The chairman of the jury this year was the People's Artist of Russia Yevgeny Mironov ("The Eye of God", "The Time of the First").

Together with him, the winners were chosen by producer Tandy Davids (South Africa), cameraman Hayk Kirakosyan and director Andrey Kravchuk.

In total, about 230 films from 65 countries were shown at the festival.

The greatest number of films was brought by filmmakers from India and France - 20 films each.

The opening film of the MIFF this year was the historical drama "The Heart of Parma" directed by Anton Megerdichev based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Ivanov.

The review of the Korean detective story "The Decision to Leave" directed by Park Chan-wook has closed.

In 2021, the main prize of the MIFF was taken by the comedy “#Asshole” by the Romanian director Andrei Khutsulyak, and Andrei Gramoshteanu, who played in this film, was awarded the prize for best actress.

The first MIFF was held on February 21, 1935 at the Udarnik cinema and was then called the Soviet Film Festival in Moscow.

Over the years, the event was attended by the largest celebrities of their time, including Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Jean Marais, Richard Burton, Anna Karina, Toshiro Mifune, Yves Montand and others.

Since 1999, the MIFF has been headed by Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov.