Film director born in Moldova gets Golden Bear prize at Berlin International Film Festival

13:37 | 06.03.2021 Category: Culture

Chisinau, 6 March /MOLDPRES/ - A 29-year-old film director born in Moldova, Olga Lucovnicova, has got the Golden Bear prize at the 71st issue of the Berlin International Film Festival for the short film titled, Nanu Tudor (Godfather Tudor) – a co-production made with Belgium, Portugal and Hungary.

According to electronic sources, the film director tells her own story of victim of a sexual aggression. Thus, when she was 9 years old and lived in Moldova, she was sexually abused by her uncle.

”Her courage, along with her cinematographic abilities, make a strong, emotional and complex film.’’ This was the justification of the Berlin Festival’s jury for awarding the Golden Bear prize to Olga Lucovnicova at the short film category. In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, the prizes were nominated online this year.

The Godfather Tudor has been recently awarded the prize also by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund for the best documentary.

Olga Lucovnicova studied film direction at the Music, Theatre and Fine Arts Academy from Chisinau. She also made other short films in 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2019.

The ceremony on awarding the Berlin International Film Festival is scheduled for 9 June 2021.

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