2024

SIFFA 2024

IRIDA Russian-British International Film Festival and Awards (SIFFA 2024)

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

The winner was chosen from the competition films by the following jury members:

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ATOUSA JAM

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NATALYA BONDARCHUK

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ELIZABETH JONES

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ADEL DARWISH

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LYDIA GRIGORIEVA

ED WARD

Vera Glagoleva's SIFFA Award for the Best Debut Film - Film: Voiceless. Director: Zahra Mojahed

SIFFA Award for the Best Short Film - Film: Going First. Director: Anna Lee

SIFFA Award for the Best Actor - Film: Don’t Worry About Me. Actor: Masoud Keramati

SIFFA Award for the Best Screenplay - Film: Sweet Sorrow. Director: Parisa Zandbaf

SIFFA Award for the Best Pictorial Art - Film: Alien. Director: Jurita Kalite

SIFFA Award for the Best Montage - Film: Shift Change. Director: Mark Hensley

SIFFA Award for the Best Montage - Film: Shift Change. Director: Mark Hensley

SIFFA Award for the Best Short Film Director - Film: Vovka. Director: Oksana Stashenko

Special screening of the shorts - The Place (2001) by the director Arkady Kogan

Mohy Quandour's SIFFA Award for the Best Youth Film - Film: From the Painter’s View. Director: Goli Zarei

This year, for the first time, an award was given to perpetuate the memory of the legend of world cinema Mohy Quandour (Kandour),

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

The winners were chosen from the competition films by the following jury members:

RICHARD BELFIELD

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ELIZABETH JONES

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ATOUSA JAM

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SYLVIE BOLIOLI

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KATIE JARVIS

SIFFA President Award - Film: Altai the Grain of the Future. Director: Natalya Bondarchuk

SIFFA Award for the Best Documentary - Film: Little Baluches. Director: Raya Nasiri

SIFFA Award for the Best Documentary Director - Film: The Human Side of Plastic: Babacar Thiaw. Directors: Andrew Lynch, Ben Ayers, Rush Sturges

MAIN SCREENINGS - PRESENTED OUT OF COMPETITION

This year SIFFA’s Special Focus screening was on the Russian literature through the Camera lenses of the British and Russian film directors. Including the Academy award, The Palme d'or and other international awards winning films:

The Cranes are Flying (1957) Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears (1980) Director: Vladimir Menshov

The Double (2013) Director: Richard Ayoade

Two Women (2014) Director: Vera Glagoleva

Vysotsky. Unknown... a true story (2018-2024) Director: Anatoly Balchev

Seven Moments of Robert Rozhdestvensky (2022) Director: Pavel Menyaylo

Khitrovka. The Sign of Four (2023) Director: Karen Shakhnazarov (inspired by the books of Conan Doyle, the essays of Gilyarovsky and the ideas of Stanislavsky).

Traditional SIFFA Awards for the partners:

SIFFA Award for the Distinguished Patronage - Dear Darling management and team for the 3 years of exceptional commitment

Best SIFFA Partner of the Year - Anvar Turobov, Founder and Managing Director of ALNUR (London based Web design & Digital Marketing Agency)

SIFFA 2024 awarded Anastasia Ivanova for the Excellence in Digital Art and Design.