"aRTel.doc: Time for Heroes": the first international festival of documentary films RT summed up the results

The guests were presented with 25 paintings about the heroes of the NWO.

The festival also included discussions with filmmakers, round tables, pitching for young documentary filmmakers, master classes, open lectures and meetings with industry leaders.

Singer Elena Sever performed at the closing ceremony, the St. John's wort group performed the compositions "Russian Spring" and "My Motherland Returns", rock musician Sergei Galanin and the SerGa group performed the famous song "What Do We Need?".

The authors and directors of the works shown at the film festival became the owners of the "aRTel.doc: Time of Heroes" award.

According to the results of the audience voting, the special prize went to the film “Boys of the Vostok Battalion” by directors and authors of the RT documentary channel Oleg Nekishev, Mikhail Burov and Olga Kiriy.

Olga Kiriy also received an award for the documentary "Saints from the Medical Unit".

The tape tells the story of Russian doctors who come to the Mariupol hospital in the midst of hostilities.

Together with local doctors, they carry out dozens of operations every day, save civilians and wounded soldiers.

Ekaterina Yakovleva, head of documentary broadcasting RT, general producer of the festival, presented the prize to two winners of the pitching of documentary projects, which took place within the framework of the festival.

The awards were received by Artyom Korsakov from Khabarovsk and Anton Nikonov from Moscow.

Both winners will make films together with the documentary channel RT.

The paintings will be shown at the next aRTel.doc festival.

A special prize from the Synergy University went to one of the pitching participants Alexander Panferov from Moscow for the idea of ​​the film “Mariupol.

The Second Salvation” about the battle for Mariupol.

Within the framework of the festival, five premiere screenings were held - “Boys of the Vostok Battalion” directed by Oleg Nekishev, Mikhail Burov and author Olgiy Kiriy about the life of fighters who defend the independence of Donbass;

"Brothers" by the author Aigul Yerbulova about how volunteer battalions are formed;

"One Step" by Ekaterina Kitaytseva about the heroes of the NWO who were seriously injured;

film by Tatyana Borsch “Donbass.

That's why I'm here” with stories of journalists from European countries who came to Donbass;

film-poem "Red November" by military commissar Semyon Pegov.

Journalist Semyon Pegov spoke about the work on the film “Red November”: “All military correspondents are now doing a great job there, talking about human destinies.

I am so grateful to all my team that made this film with me.

Absolutely every person who met on our way creatively participated in everything that happened.

Even fighters, simple guys who helped us organize a trip to the pre-trial detention center, where we recorded poems to the accompaniment of balalaikas against the background of workers.

All our shooting is absolute spontaneity.

This is real art, which is created not by some higher circles, but by those guys who are there.”

Another film is “PMC Wagner.

Contract with the Motherland, directed by Vladislav Rytkov and author Andrey Yashchenko, is about one of the most closed military organizations.

Its fighters from the first days are in the zone of a special military operation in Ukraine.

The festival was closed by the film "Brothers" by the author of the documentary channel RT Aigul Yerbulova.

In the center of the plot are the stories of men who came to sign up as volunteers for the SVO in different parts of Russia: from Bashkortostan to Primorye, from the Krasnodar Territory to Siberia.

Open lecture on the topic: “War and Faith.

How does the Bible help make sense of what is happening?

Within the framework of the Business Program, Boris Korchevnikov, General Director of the Spas TV channel, and Archpriest Igor Fomin held.

The media partners of the festival are RIA Novosti news agency, Komsomolskaya Pravda media group, Spas TV channel, Argumenty i Fakty publishing house, Synergy University, Ratnik TV channel, Sputnik radio and Paragraph Media.

aRTel.doc is the RTDoc (RT documentary broadcasting) platform for sharing experience with RT professionals, master classes and lectures from the best documentarians in the world.

On the basis of aRTel.doc, a non-fiction film school, a film club, and now a film festival have been created.

Over the years of broadcasting, the 24/7 documentary channel RTDoc has released more than 1,000 documentaries, many of which have won prestigious international awards, including New York Festivals, Telly Awards and OMNI Intermedia Awards.

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