The tape was awarded the “For the development of documentary” award.
Film “Last Day on Azovstal” directed by Dmitry “Orest” by Kozatskyi and Yulia Hontaruk won the award “For the development of documentary” at the Kharkiv MeetDocs festival. As reported on the festival's Facebook page, this award was established this year.
It is emphasized that Orest – the head of the press service of the “Azov” regiment – was at “Azovstal” from the beginning of the encirclement of Mariupol by the occupiers. On the eve of his exit from the completely destroyed factory, he shot a moving farewell film.
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In addition, an award in a new category this year was won by Babylon'13, which has created more than 400 works on important topics since 2013. The starting point for the creation of the association was Independence Square, where students were violently dispersed in 2013.
Serhiy Bukovsky, who shot more than 50 documentaries and feature films, was also awarded.
Journalists Sevgil Musaeva and Yuriy Butusov were also awarded awards in the category “For the development of documentary”.
We remind you that on the evening of September 21 a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war took place in Chernihiv Oblast. 215 Ukrainian soldiers returned home, including defenders of Azovstal. Among them are also commanders of the Mariupol garrison– Denys Prokopenko (call sign “Radis”), Svyatoslav Palamar and Serhii Volynskyi. All of them will be in Turkey under the personal protection of President Recep Erdogan until the end of the war against Ukraine.
As part of a large-scale exchange, Ukraine also managed to free ten foreigners. Among them are citizens of Morocco, USA, Great Britain, Sweden and Croatia. Some of them were “sentenced” to death by the occupiers. These are the British Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as the Moroccan Saadoun Brahim.
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