The film is about a Beijing journalist, who returns to his birthplace to write about a rare find, a crested ibis, a symbol of China, a bird that appears only in ecologically clean areas of the country. The large cities of China are some of the most ecologically polluted on the planet. But the film is also about the wider need for reform in China.
The festival was presided over by President of the festival Nikita Mikhalkov and programme director was Kirill Razlogov with Andrei Plakhov chairing the selection committee.
Moscow International Film Festival Prizes
Main Competition
Golden George for Best Film
Crested Ibis / Yuan Shang (China)
Directed by Lian Qiao
Special Jury Prize Silver George
The Bottomless Bag / Meshok Bez Dna (Russia)
Directed by Rustam Khamdamov
Silver George for Best Director
Yellow Heat / Sari Sicak (Turkey)
Directed by Fikret Reyhan
Silver George for Best Actor
Son Hyun-Ju for Ordinary Person / Botonsaram (Korea)
Directed by Kim Bong-han
Silver George for Best Actress
Verena Altenberger for The Best of All Worlds / Die Beste Aller Welten (Germany, Austria)
Directed by Adrian Goiginger
Silver George for the Best Documentary
The Paris Opera (France, Switzerland)
Directed by Jean-Stephane Bron
Best Short Film
Ambulanse (Norway)
Directed by Sebastian Torngren Wartin
Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema
Franco Nero (Italy)
Special Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Career of Acting and Devotion to the Principles of the Stanislavsky School
Michele Placido (Italy)
FIPRESCI Jury Prize
Summer Blooms (Japan)
Directed by Ryutaro Nakagawa
NETPAC Jury Prize
Ordinary Person (Korea)
Directed by Kim Bong-han
Russian Critics Jury Prize
ax equo:
Symphone for Ana (Argentina)
Directed by Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina
The Bottomless Bag (Russia)
Directed by Rustam Khamdamov
Russian Critics Jury Special Mention
Summer Blooms (Japan)
Directed by Ryutaro Nakagawa
International Cinema Clubs Federation Prize
The Bottomless Bag (Russia)
Directed by Rustam Khamdamov
International Cinema Clubs Federation Prize for New Talents
Pagans (Russia)
Directed by Lera Surkova
Audience Award
Thawed Carp (Russia)
Directed by Vladimir Kott
Kommersant Weekend Prize
No Bed of Roses (Bangladesh, India)
Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
