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A Mexican movie won nan apical prize Friday astatine nan Moscow International Film Festival, which took spot arsenic awesome Western studios boycott nan Russian marketplace and arsenic Russia's warfare successful Ukraine grinds into its 3rd year.
"Shame," a movie by head Miguel Salgado and co-produced by Mexico and Qatar, was nan astir highly awarded movie astatine nan show which began successful 1935 and which has been held annually since 1999. This year’s version included much than 240 films from 56 countries.
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In his triumph speech, Salgado hailed nan show arsenic 1 of nan astir important successful nan world, adding that he was pleased to spot his film, a thriller, being shown truthful wide and that it was a "great gift" to spot truthful galore group moved by it.
A Mexican movie has won nan apical prize astatine nan Moscow International Film Festival, which took spot arsenic awesome Western studios boycott nan Russian marketplace and arsenic Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine grinds into its 3rd year.
Festival programme head Ivan Kudryavtsev told authorities news agency ITAR-Tass that much than half nan entries this twelvemonth came from countries whose governments are considered unfriendly to Russia.
After Russia sent troops into Ukraine successful February 2022, awesome studios successful nan United States and galore European countries halted distribution of their films to Russia. The cutoff was a important rustle to Russian movie theaters. Before nan conflict started, nan country's cinemas received astir 70% of their gross from Hollywood films, according to news reports.
The show programme included respective smaller films from nan United States, including "Hundreds of Beavers," billed arsenic a supernatural communicative of a 19th Century fur trapper’s conflict pinch nan animals, and "Enter nan Clones of Bruce" astir nan exploitation films that followed nan decease of martial arts fable Bruce Lee.
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Movies from different countries opposing nan warfare successful Ukraine see Romania, France, Italy and Germany.
The caput of nan assemblage for nan festival’s main award, nan Golden St. George, was Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, from NATO personnel Iceland, whose "Children of Nature" is nan only Icelandic movie ever nominated for an Academy Award.
