The winners of the XIII International Inspirational Film Festival "LAMP" have been announced

On October 11, the XIII International Inspirational Film Festival LAMPA came to an end in Perm, the strategic partner of which was once again the National Media Group, and the partner of the children's track of the Festival was the CTC Perm TV channel. This was announced on October 13 by the festival's press service.

39 films in 7 nominations received awards at the festival. A total of 69 films from 11 countries were shortlisted for this year's film festival.

In the nomination "Life-affirming series", the project "The First Racket" received two awards at once. Olga Smirnova took the statuette for "best supporting actress" to Moscow, and Maria Zalunina, head of the CSR of the National Media Group, took Valery Makhmudov's award for "best cinematography."

Sergei Malkin's "Jura Was Here" was recognized as the best feature film in the special full-meter nomination. The best full—length documentary was the opening film of the festival, "Forgive" by Elena Kuzovleva.

Anton Bogdanov's "The Beauty" won the award for the Best Acting Ensemble. The main characters of the painting appeared on the stage behind the lamp statuette: Stasia Miloslavskaya, Ivan Dobronravov, Polina Aynutdinova and Elisha Chuchilin. Mila Ershova was awarded the "main female role" in the film "You Drive me Crazy" directed by Daria Lebedeva. And Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk took the prize for the "female supporting role" in the film "Sidney Lumet's Birthday" by Raul Heydarov.

The Grand Prix of the XIII LAMP Festival went to the animated film "Son" directed by Zhanna Bekmambetova, Russia.

The best feature short film was recognized as "Love is no More", directed by Apollinaria Limanskaya from Russia. The award "for lamp aesthetics" was awarded to the painting "Book Romances" directed by Nikolai Chernobaev, which was presented at the festival by its main actor Kirill Rusin.

The "Best Acting Duo" was awarded in Ivan Dobronravov's short film "Full Empathy Mode". According to Ivan, he first came into contact with the LAMP back in 2001, but then he could not even imagine that he would ever stand on this stage with an award for his own project. Films from France, Iran and China were also awarded prizes in this category.

"We all come from different countries, speak different languages, and live completely different lives, but when the lights go out and the movie starts, we're all able to experience the story the same way," said Bai Liping, producer of the Chinese film "Showtime."

The special nomination "The Road to Home", established by LAMPA in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Russian Federation, was awarded to the documentary film "Song of Immigrants" by Brazilian directors.

Also in the nomination documentary short film "for the preservation of family values" was awarded the picture: "The female share" directed by Lilia Dmitrik about the mother of ten children from Perm.

"For the story of a real hero," the prize went to the film "Churning Butter" by Elena Polina, which tells about a teenager, Savelei Serdnov, who went into remission four times and returned to oncology again, but always found new strength to live.

The awards in the Animated Short Film category were presented by Marina Kosheva, head of the editorial office of Soyuzmultfilm, and Lyudmila Zayakina, animator of the FSUE Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio.

The award "For reminding that happiness is to find those who see the world through your eyes" was awarded to the cartoon "Hugo" from Brazil.

"For embodying the image of true friendship" — the work "Once upon a time there was a tiger", based on the true story of friendship between tiger Amur and goat Timur and others.

Pavel Timofeev's "Getting Back on Your Feet" became the best life-affirming game series. Actor Platon Savvin won the award for "best actor" in the second season of the TV series "Penguins of my Mother". "I didn't Get into Hogwarts" was unanimously recognized as the best documentary series.

The film "Captain number 10" by Masoud Mansouri from Iran was named the best work in the nomination "Special Focus". A special prize was also awarded from the permanent partner of the children's track "LAMPS" of the CTC TV channel to the series "Be Yourself" directed by Maria Khudanina.

Of course, it was not without awarding the already traditional "Super-short Meter" nomination for the festival, which features both short videos from directors and vertical VK clips from users of social networks.

The best film in the Super-short Meter category was "Bud" by Iranian director Hamed Bahrami. And the works of "Careful, Lech!" by Ksenia Ponomareva and "Notice" by Alice Karelskaya were named the best VK clips.

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