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Awards ceremony at Listapad International Film Festival

Ida, a Polish-language drama by Warsaw-born British director Pawel Pawlikowski, won the Grand Prix at the 20th Listapad International Film Festival, which took place in Minsk between November 1 and November 8.

The co-production of Poland`s Opus Film, Denmark`s Phoenix Film Investments and Britain`s Fandango Portobello also clinched the film critics’ top prize, Srebra Listapada, as well as the international jury’s best cinematography award.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s presidential award "For Humanism and Spirituality in Cinema" went to Ukraine`s Oleksandr Parkhomenko for his movie titled Luka.

“This year I have for the first time in 20 years watched the festival’s films from the auditorium and I want to say that this 20-year-old kid has grown so mature and become so more serious and deeper that I can only be happy about such a large number of movies and nations represented at the festival,” renowned Soviet and Belarusian actor Rastsislaw Yankowski, a co-founder of the festival, said in his concluding remarks at the awards ceremony, which was held in the Smaller Hall of the Palace of the Republic. //BelaPAN

In photos:
2 – Henadz Davydzka, chairman of the jury, presents the presidential award to Oleksandr Parkhomenko;
6 – Prominent Belarusian actor Alyaksandr Yafremaw hands Serbian Ambassador Stojan Jevtic the Listapad Bronze Audience Award won by Krugovi (Circles), a Serbian-German-Slovenian-Croatian-French movie directed by Srdan Golobovic of Serbia;
8 – Rastsislaw Yankowski and Henadz Davydzka close the festival.