{"id":37444,"date":"2025-10-12T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/?p=37444"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:00:21","slug":"2025-grand-prix-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/2025-grand-prix-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Ratgauz speaks about the programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mikhail<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thirty-five years is no small matter. In Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann wrote of a deep well of time separating him from his characters. The past thirty-five years form a shallower well\u2014a much closer era, yet one that shows how swiftly time flows and how it transforms the very strata from which, for instance, cinema is formed.<\/p>\n

In this anniversary year, the programmers of the Message to Man have sought to bring back to the screen the gold mined by our colleagues over three and a half decades. We leaned over that well of time and drew forth its most precious treasures\u2014those that have not lost their brilliance.<\/p>\n

Our guiding principle was simple: we focused on a single layer\u2014films that won the Festival\u2019s Grand Prix. We sifted through nearly all we could unearth, refined our selection, and assembled ten of the finest into one programme: Ten: Grand Prix Through the Decades.<\/p>\n

Here, you will find the \u201cuntouchable reserve\u201d of Russian documentary filmmaking: Victor Kossakovsky\u2019s The Belovs<\/i><\/a> and Sergei Dvortsevoy\u2019s Bread Day<\/i><\/a>; masterpieces of Russian animation in Andrey Khrzhanovskiy\u2019s Lion with a Grey Beard<\/i><\/a> and Aleksandr Petrov\u2019s My Love<\/i><\/a>; and masterful examples of diverse documentary techniques in Mercedes Stalenhoef\u2019s Carmen Meets Borat<\/i><\/a> and Bernadett Tuza-Ritter\u2019s A Woman Captured<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, you will come face to face with the very nature of time, seeing how the conditional and the absolute have traded places within it, and how the method of close observation of reality has evolved over these decades.<\/p>\n

Mikhail Ratgauz<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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