Archimandrite, a documentary Jerzy Kalina filmed at the order of Belsat TV, got the Grand Prize of the 11th International Christian Film Festival in Tbilisi.
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Thirty films from nine countries participated in the competition. The jury headed by Polish director Jerzy Lubach unanimously recognized Archimandrite the best film of the festival.
The film tells the story of Orthodox archimandrite Gabriel, the founder and sole inhabitant of a hermitage in the Kudak wilderness on the river bank of Narew (Poland). For the first few years he lived there alone and prayed in a portacabin, without electricity, running water, completely cut off from the outside world.
Earlier, the documentary was awarded in Kyiv, Minsk, Warsaw, Moscow, Čadca (Slovakia), Dnipro (Ukraine), Kruševac (Serbia).
The International Christian Film Festival “St Andrew’s Cross” is held under the patronage of His Holiness Ilia II, Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia. Its goal is to show and familiarize the Christian world with historic past, Christian heritage and present-day of Georgia, also to itself to familiarize with present-day life and art of the Christian countries.
