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Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Russian drama Ayka wins best film.

Russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka, about a young woman attemping to survive after abandoning her baby in Moscow, was the big winner at Germany’s Filmfestival Cottbus (Nov 6-11), taking home the best film prize in the feature competition as well as prize of the ecumenical jury.

Ayka, which is Dvortsevoy’s second feature, premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year and is Kazakhstan’s entry for the best foreign- language film Oscar category. The Match Factory is handling international sales.

Russian films regularly garner the main prize in...

Moscow -- The simultaneous online run of high-profile Russian theatrical release Geograf Globus Propil (The Geographer Drank Away His Globe) has been terminated due to pressure from cinema chains. The $3 million movie, which collected the main award at Russia’s main national fest Kinotavr in June and later picked up the main award at the Odessa International Film Festival, was released on Nov. 7 in theaters and on legitimate online video services Ivi and Play. However, theater chains Karo and Cinema Park were unhappy to learn about the online release. “By simultaneously releasing the film online, the producers breached a

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