Film on conflict in South Ossetia wins a prize at international festival of TV reporters

The film "City of Lonely Mothers" made by the "Russia Today" Russian English-language TV Channel on the life in Tskhinvali during the first days of last August South Ossetia-Georgia conflict was awarded a silver medal at the international festival named "New York Festivals".

Let us note here that the topic of the last year's aggravation in the conflict zone has not left indifferent also the world-famous film directors. Thus, Serbian Emir Kusturica has expressed his intention to make a film about Ossetia. Georgia, however, fears that he can be non-objective in covering the recent armed conflict and its implications.

The prize-winning film "City of Lonely Mothers", which was started by "Russia Today" correspondent Oksana Boiko and cameraman Alexei Donadoev in Tskhinvali on August 10, 2008, tells about the first days of the war, besieged residents of Tskhinvali and mothers who lost their sons. The film unveiling took place in late August last year, and in September the film was demonstrated at the UN headquarters before the opening of the 63rd General Assembly, as the RIA "Novosti" reports.

The gold medal of the festival was awarded to the film "Jihad Women" made by the ABC Australian TV Company, and the bronze award went to the film of Channel One "Tskhinvali Wounds".

The Osinform Agency reports that apart from the above films, other famous film directors unveiled their works on tragic events in South Ossetia last year. Among them: "Tskhinvali Parable" by Vadim Tsalikov and "Children of the Sun" by Maria Sementsova.

Among new films dedicated to the "five-day war" in South Ossetia - a new film of Akim Salbiev "August. Tskhinvali". The film director has reported that his documentary is ready for demonstration: the film was already invited to Ossetia and to film festivals in France and Germany.