HEAD OF THE JURY, PROFESSOR AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IN MONTREAL, FILM STUDIES EXPERT.
CEO OF CHECHENFILM, DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, PRODUCER.
DIRECTOR OF BUDEM ZHIT'! FILM FESTIVAL, PRODUCER.
HEAD OF JURY, MEMBER OF FIPRESCI AND UNION OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS OF KYRGYZSTAN, FILM STUDIES EXPERT AND FILM CRITIC.
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
CREATOR OF POPULAR SCIENCE FILMS, DIRECTOR.
HONORARY HEAD OF THE JURY, PRODUCER.
HEAD OF JURY, HONORED ARTIST OF RUSSIA, DIRECTOR.
CO-HEAD OF THE JURY, HOLLYWOOD AND BRITISH ACTRESS.
TELEVISION PRESENTER, THEATRE AND FILM ACTRESS.
PRODUCER, HONORED CULTURAL FIGURE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE VICE-CHAIRMAN OF EURASIAN CREATIVE GUILD (UK-KAZAKHSTAN).
Anatoly Balchev for long-term dedication to his project The Passenger from San Francisco (Russia-US).
Galina Urazova for best sound design in The Trap (Russia).
Daria Binevskaya for the kindest film, Africa (Russia).
Sound-Signs of the Circassian (Adyghe) Language + the Transformation of Malevich’s Black Square from Kabardino-Balkaria. The award will be given to artist Ruslan Tsrym for providing a vivid example of performance art that combines the primacy of language and art and to director Tamerlan Vasiliev for depicting it on the screen.
At the ceremony the Press Award was accepted by the one of producers Stephen Mao.