DEADLINE: APRIL 20, 2021— Baikal International Film Festival invites applications for its 20th annual festival on the theme “People and Environment”.
The film festival will be held from 23 till 27 of September 2021 in Irkutsk.
The Festival “People and Environment” was conceived as a film platform which gives the possibility to think about complicated relationship between human and nature.
Films will be evaluated in the following categories;
• Grand Prix n.a. V.Rasputin (including 300 000 Russian rubles award)
• Best documentary film a. M.Romm
• Best popular-science film n.a. Cherskiy;
• Best feature film n.a. L.Gaidai
• Best animation movie
• “Baikal” Prize – for acuteness of the problem (film on the most actual ecological problems)
Other special awards are:
• Youth Jury Award
• Mass Media Award
• Audience Award
Applications will close on 20th of April 2021.
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