International Film Festival for Children and Youth
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"Behaviour" (Conducta), a Cuban film by director Ernesto Daranas, is winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Zlín 2015. The Jury also awarded a Commendation to "Mina Walking", an Afghan-Canadian co-production directed by Yosef Baraki. Both films have been awarded as well with the "Golden Slipper", the main award of the festival, in the International Competition for Feature Films for Youth.

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Awards of the Ecumenical Jury
Awards of the Ecumenical Jury
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín 2015
Conducta
Behaviour
Ernesto Daranas
Cuba
2014

A bitter look at the harsh reality of growing up in contemporary Havana, this is a multi-layered and well-constructed story that shows how one person's love, strength, and conviction can conquer the cold reality of an uncaring system determined to tear an 11-year old boy from the only way of life that he knows. This is a generous story of the human spirit and its ability to maintain dignity and hope while transcending the forceful truths of a modern society in flux. (Photo: © trigon-film)

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