Indian film wins top prizes at Moscow International Film Festival

(24 Apr 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow - 24 April 2025
1. Wide of NETPAC award ceremony
2. Mid of audience
3. Various of Indian film critic and NETPAC jury member Premendra Mazumder giving award to Indian film director Pradip Kurbah
4. Mid of audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pradip Kurbah, film director:
“I’m speechless, actually. I didn’t expect this, truly I didn’t expect this. Coming from a place like all the way here and getting an opportunity to screen the film out here. I think it’s more than winning an award. Getting something like this is beyond imagination. Thank you jury members for considering this film to be a deserving film for this NETPAC award.”
7. Wide of audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pradip Kurbah, film director:
“But also I would like to congratulate the other Asain films also a part of this competition. I think it’s not all about winning it’s about representation, I feel. Representation is a very important thing when it comes to films and cinema. Winning, losing is ok because we come with the belief that we have made the best of the films that we can do from our space. And, I don’t know what else to say but I would like to thank each one of you. Thank you, Moscow International Film Festival for all the hospitality for what you've been, it’s really amazing and I just love the audience out here the way they accepted the film. And thank you so much, thank you so much.”
9. Various of red carpet ceremony
STORYLINE:
An Indian film has earned top honors at the Moscow International Film Festival, held as Western studios boycott the Russian film market.

“The Elysian Field,” directed by Pradeep Kurba, won the Gold St. George for Best Film, the Silver St. George for Best Director and the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury Prize.

It was awarded "for philosophical depiction of life and death through a brilliant poetic language of cinema, filled with satire and humour,” the NETPAC jury said.

Russian director Andrei Zaitsev and his movie “Two People In One Life And A Dog” won the Audience Choice Award for the Best Film in the main competition.

This year’s festival programme featured 200 films from 50 countries, including China, Iran, South Korea, Argentina, India, Egypt and others. Spanish film producer and writer Lluís Miñarro chaired the jury.

The Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) began in 1935 and has been held annually since 1999.

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