Russian director won the award in Cannes

News24xx.com - Russian director Igor Poplauhin won the second place in the competition of the student short film "Cinefondation" at the Cannes Film Festival. This is reported on the site review.

He became the winner with the film "Calendar", which lasts 28 minutes and talks about a woman who leaves the comfort zone and goes on a long trip. This is a short tape about the search for freedom. This project is the third work of the director who made short films "Asphalt" and "22".

Poplauhin - a graduate of the journalist faculty of the Moscow State University, who studies at the Moscow School of New Cinema, shared second place with Chinese director Shen Dee.

The first prize was given to Chilean cinematographer Diego Kespendes for the cinema
"El Verano del Léon Eléctrico" - "The Summer of the Electric Lion".