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"Minsk", directed by Boris Guts, an Estonian film situated in the Ukraine, has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus, the festival for East European Cinema. The film was also chosen as their winner by the film critics's jury (Fipresci). The main prize of the festival for Best Direction went to "Safe Place", a Croatian-Slovenian co-production directed by Juraj Lerotić.
On 8 November, the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus opened with the Ukrainian feature film "Luxembourg, Luxembourg". The festival showed a total of 219 films in four competition sections and seven other sections, 13 of them from Ukraine and three more about Ukraine. The Ecumenical Jury chose its winner from the 12 entries in the feature film competition.
As part of the supporting programme, an Ecumenical Evening took place on Thursday, 10 November, in the Oberkirche St. Nikolai under the motto " Kino - Kirche - Kurzfilm" (Cinema - Church - Short Film). The documentary short film "No Body and the Blue Sky" (OT: Ara Win Da Lurji Tsa) from the new EcoEast section, which is dedicated to Eastern European films on ecological themes, was shown and presented by director Magda Gvelesiani from Georgia.