Close the Festival "East & West : Classics & Avant-Gard"

Prize "Sarmatian Gold Lion" "For contribution to cinema "- director Alexander Proshkin

Prize "Sarmatian Gold Lion" for contribution to cinema "- director Sergey Solovyov.

The Prize

The organizers think that the East&West: Classical and Avant-garde Film Festival will become an international forum designed to conceptualise the problems and tendencies which exist in modern cooperation process of film-makers representing different nationalities. Film gives a language of communication that is universally understandable, which is specified in the subtitle – Classical and Avant-garde Film. While classical film constitutes its fundamental principles and traditions, avant-garde film manifests ideological and artistic breakthrough to the future. The latter enables us to take another look at man’s place in this world and to associate it with his historical and national past.

Best Film

"Tommy's Inferno"

(Norway, 2007; director Ove Raymond Gyldenas)

Best director

Ove Raymond Gyldenas

("Tommy's Inferno"; Norway, 2007)

Best actor

Alen Liveric

("No one's son";m Crotia-Slovenia, 2008; director-Arsen Anton Ostojic)

 Best actress

Laurence Ritter

("Bonded Parallels", Armenia-Norway - France, 2008; director - Hovhannes Galstyan)

 Prize of the Governor of Orenburg region "Captain's Daughter"

"Songs from The Southern Seas"

(Director Marat Sarulu; Germany- Russia- France - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan)
 

	Tatiana Voronetskaya, President of the Festival: Asia is being genuinely interested in European culture while Europe, in its turn, is fascinated with the Asia. Such interest may sometimes bring forth new forms of this art or another. Its geographical location, its historical and cultural development and traditions make Russia unique. There is an obelisk in Orenburg, which marks the geographical division between Europe and Asia. Standing there you find yourself being both in Europe and Asia – a paradox. But this paradox makes you realize the integrity of Earth and conventionality of any division.
	Kirill Razlogov, discussion moderator: The Orenburg Film Festival as the meeting place of the West and the East, of Europe and Asia, classical and avant-garde films presents its guests and participants a unique chance to share opinions, discuss on-going and long-term plans and projects in film-making and film events, to outline possible cooperation and fruitful interaction between people of creative jobs. An important role in that process is going to be played by the Film Industry Office which is to be launched as part of the, of the Festival programme for the first time this year.
	Sergei Lavrentiev, coordinator of the Festival screening programmes: The qualifications of the East&West Festival allow showing both classical and avant-garde films. Actually, the classical – avant-garde film collision is also an attempt to make seemingly incompatible ideas and principles of film-making meet. No other Russian film festival has ever set such objectives before.

Orenburg Area:

Historically, Orenburg area has been populated by numerous nationalities professing different religions. In the course of many centuries when different peoples lived side by side the Slavs, the Tuques and the Finno-Ugric family of peoples have developed traditional mutual understanding and respect, international communication and religious tolerance.

Nowadays, 119 nationalities make up the population of Orenburg area. In the past the Orenburg steppe was populated by the Sarmatians, an ancient people. Annually, archaeological expeditions make amazing discoveries dating back to 4th – 5th centuries A.D. They contain weapons and jewellery. The image of the Gold Sarmatian Lion, one of the archaeological finds, has become the symbol of the East&West: Classical and Avant-garde Film Festival.