Russian film "White Yagel" received an award at the Los Angeles Film Festival Automatic translate

LOS ANGELES. The film directed by Vladimir Tumaev "The White Yagel", representing Russia at the 21st Los Angeles Film Festival, received the "Special Jury Mention" award in the "World Feature Film" nomination. The press service of the festival announced this after the completion of the independent film contest program. According to representatives of the KTLA television channel, on which the names of the winners were announced, the picture "White Moss" was included in the top ten films of the film festival according to the rating of film critics.

The winner of the main prize in the most prestigious category of the World Art Cinema festival was the film “Swedish Herd” by Beta Gardeler (Floсken, 2015). This is the second film of the beginning filmmaker, in the center of the plot of which is a 14-year-old girl.

In the second most significant nomination for American Feature Films, the winner was the film Out of My Hand (2015) by Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga. The film tells the story of a peasant from Africa trying to become a taxi driver in New York.

In total, 200 cinema films from 35 countries of the world participated in various competitive programs of the festival. Among them, more than 70 paintings are feature films. The award ceremony and completion of the festival will take place tonight, June 18th.

The Los Angeles Film Festival was established in 1995 with the goal of showing independent filmmaking from around the world. More than 10 thousand spectators and filmmakers from many countries visit the festival annually.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru