Russian movie Suleiman Mountain directed by Elizaveta Stishova has won Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon International Film Festival in China as well as People’s Choice Award, as per the project’s press service, as per RIA Novosti.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon festival took place Pingyao for the first time. It was initiated by Chinese director and producer Jia Zhangke and Festival manager Marko Muller who was a director of Venice Film Festival and Festival in Locarno. More than forty movies from different countries took part in the show, which completed on November, 4.
Suleiman Mountain directed by Elizaveta Stishova collected the Roberto Rossellini prize and People’s Choice Award, according to the press-service. The jury chairman French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin has noted that the movie was produced with deep faith in cinema.
The action takes place in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, where there is Suleiman Mountain – a place for prayers of local population. The small boy named Uluk from the orphanage is praying for happiness of his family: his father is tearing apart between his two wives.
Producer Elena Yatsura has shared that the team encountered many difficulties during the movie production process; at this, everybody felt the story should be accomplished. According to her, inner worlds of characters and complicated and ambiguous relations hide beyond simple and plain plot.
It is great happiness that very professional and prestigious jury unanimously chose our movie as the best one. Happiness is when you are understood, the producer concluded. It is a debuting movie for Elizaveta Stishova.
Russkiy Mir
