Artdocfest
artdocfest international festival original documentary film artdocfest present brightest nonformat documentary genre established directorate russian national nonfiction film award lavrovaya vetv laurel branch artdocfest held annually moscow russia first decade december since also held saint petersburg russia riga latvia mansky wrote festival “was destroyed happening russia today year almost film current event removed program even festival video print ad censored opening day festival program completely censored festival destroyed opened one way another would called march ” artdocfest documentary film festival first held moscow organized directorate russian national nonfiction film award vitaly mansky headed jury festival created support promote film professional competition lavrovaya vetv primarily category best author documentary best debut first competition program included film herbarium natalia meshchaninova class ekaterina eremenko mother pavel kostomarov antoine cattinartel sergei loznitsa far london yulia kiseleva first jury consisting dmitry bykov aidan salakhova boris yukhananov awarded grand prix svetlana fedorovas film scary festival instantly gained popularity attracted thousand viewer chance get acquainted russian author documentary also best picture foreign festival first year winner idfa leipzig international film festival shown noncompetitive program also artdocfest became platform german czech republic national film industry presented russia since beginning russia aggressive action towards ukraine russian state structure began put pressure festival head year minister culture russia vladimir medinsky announced ban state support project related festival following year pressure continued festival partner ministry culture russian federation major russian official parliamentarian sued festival contrived formal occasion persecution organized state medium including country main tv channel festival audience hall attacked people harmed festival president vitaly mansky move republic latvia year artdocfest presented documentary program cooperation riga international film festival rigaiff first time pressure festival russia continued censorship administrative barrier imposed free screening vivid documentary latvian part artdocfest expanded entire competition work artdocfest jury transferred riga winner festival also announced city riga international documentary film festival artdocfestriga created festival organized jointly latvian directorate artdocfest biedriba artdoc fest medium leader documentary film industry baltic region mansky wrote festival “was destroyed happening russia today year almost film current event removed program even festival video print ad censored opening day festival program completely censored festival destroyed opened one way another would called march ” online cinematheque artdocmedia created overcome governmental censorship russia situationin film authority like may banned never shown cinema online cinematheque way russian viewer see free independent documentary addition artdocmedia act imdb documentary storing data film created author former soviet country official website institute documentary film russian documentary film festival fight censorship zapovednik ‘my friend boris nemtsov’ documentary film murdered politician come russia artdocfest moscow artdocfest show documentary film postsoviet central asia ‘stalin dead long live stalin’