The Russian films Oxygen by Ivan Vyrypayev, Captive by Aleksei Uchitel and How I Ended This Summer by Aleksei Popogrebsky have become prize-winners of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, or Pesaro Film Festival at the Adriatic coast.
      
      Ivan Vyrypayev’s second feature film about love of a young man and a red-haired girl, which won recognition on the domestic theatrical stage, participated in the basic competitive program of the festival and was awarded the prize of youth jury for "innovative narration".
      
      The work directed by the eminent master Aleksei Uchitel and based on Vladimir Makanin’s story "Caucasian captured" about an episode of the Chechen war, has won the prize "Emnisti Italy". This award is traditionally given to films that touch upon the theme of human rights.
      
      The winner of the Silver Bear of the Berlin Film Festival - How I Ended This Summer by director Aleksei Popogrebsky - appealed to audience most of all and was repeatedly demonstrated in the open-air screen at the closing of the festival.
      
      The main prize of the jury, which involved the Russian actress Kseniya Rappoport, went to the South-Korean film Eighteen about the first love at the age of 18.
      
      Source: itar-tass.com