At the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on the island of Lido, Ilya Khrzhanovsky received the Silver Lion for Best Director for the film Dau. The top prize, the Golden Lion, went to the film The Unknown Woman by Danish director May el-Toukhy.

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The documentary «Russian Winter,» filmed with clear sympathy for political émigrés from Russia, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival during days when residents of Ukrainian cities were suffering from the cold under Russian bombardment. But Austrian director Patrick Chiha did not change the title.

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