Valeria Gai Germanika named "Best Director" of the Moscow International Film Festival

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

This weekend, the 36th Moscow International Film Festival ended in the capital. Within the framework of the film forum, more than 350 films were presented to the public, while 16 films were presented in the competition program. Finally, on Saturday, the best received awards. In particular, the shocking cinematographer Valeria Gai Germanika was named “Best Director”.

"Golden George" - the main award of the festival - went to the film "My Man" by Japanese director Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. The film Kumakiri tells about the life of the girl Hana, who lost her parents due to the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in the area of the island of Hokkaido in 1993. She was adopted as a daughter by her relative, Yungo. After some time, the relationship between them grew into love.

Valeria Gai Germanicus received the Silver Saint George for the film Yes and Yes.

Germanika also received a special prize for the best film of the main competition program according to the Kommersant Weekend magazine by the Kommersant Publishing House. As the representative of the publication specified, the award was awarded "for passion and uncompromising" in the director's work. Earlier, the jury of FIPRESCI (Federation of International Film Press) named the new work of Germanicus the best film.

The title of "Best Actress" was awarded to Natalia Polovinka, a Ukrainian singer who played the main role in Victoria Trofimenko's film "Brothers. The last confession”. Japanese Tadanobu Asano, who played the main role in the melodrama "My Man", was named "Best Actor". Asano did not come to Moscow, but sent a letter in which he thanks the festival and asks to continue to follow his work.

People's Artist of the USSR Inna Churikova won a special prize "for conquering the heights of acting and loyalty to the principles of the school of KS Stanislavsky."