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Arūnas Matelis, who has returned from two days ago, has added an award of the famous Silverdoc festival to the already large collection of prizes won by his film Before Flying Back to the Earth. The film Before Flying Back to the Earth won the special Honourable Mention award. The Silverdocs festival is considered to be the most prestigious in and, in a way, a herald of Oscars: a film (and even more than one) awarded at the Silverdocs festival has always been among those nominated for Oscars.

During the opening ceremony, the honorary chairman of the programme, the former President of the , Jimmy Carter, singled out A. Matelis’s film.

This film by A. Matelis has been shown in the already for the second time and won two awards: a week ago the film received the Spirit Award for Documentary of the Brooklyn International Film Festival.  

Before Flying Back to the Earth Goes to Moscow .

Today, on 23 June, the International Moscow Film Festival started with an unexpected international scandal. The chairman of the Grand Jury, the famous director Michael Haneke, informed only more than a week ago that due to the shooting of his new film in New York he would not be able to participate in the festival. This caused reprehension among participants of the Moscow Festival and the global community of cinematographers.
The 28^th Moscow Film Festival is a group A festival (together with Cannes , Venice and Berlin ). When the famous Russian director (and advisor to President V. Putin) Nikita Mikhalkov became the president of the festival, it as if started a new life and received increasingly more attention both from cinematographers and international media. 
This year over 2500 journalists from all over the world are going to report on the festival.  

For the first time in its history this festival features a programme of documentaries, Free Thinking (Svobodnaya mysl), which consists of ten most significant documentaries created all over the world during the last two years, and also those that have won the most prestigious global awards and have been most successful in cinemas. As the organisers of this festival have said during the presentation of this programme, “it shows documentaries which on the level of conceptualisation compete with serious literature and philosophy.”

Information based on reports by BNS and Russian press has been presented by Algimantė Matelienė (studio Nominum)