The Audience Has Spoken: 2000 Meters to Andriivka and One Man Avalanche Are Festival Favorites

The stats are clear: forty-eight out of one hundred and twelvetitles received an A. Nevertheless - two films stood out.

The HRT Audience Award for Best Regional Film was awarded to Slobodanka Radun's One Man Avalanche. It is a sincere portrait of Dragoljub Đuričić, a drummer and one of the best musicians of the former Yugoslavia. The film reveals the story of the rock scene and its beginnings in Montenegro in the 1960s and its development in the Balkans in the 1970s and 1980s. Because of fantastic performances and great energy, Đuričić became a symbol of protest against Milošević's regime at the end of the 20th century. A man of ideas and great energy, he left a legacy for many of his students and generations of future drummers.

The AVITEH Audience Award for Best International Film went to the memorable documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka. Mstyslav Chernov's film follows a Ukrainian brigade through roughly two kilometers of heavily fortified forest on a mission to liberate the village of Andriivka under Russian occupation. Interweaving original footage, intense bodycam videos of the Ukrainian army, and powerful moments of reflection, it reveals with unsettling intimacy that the further the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never truly end for them.

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