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By Laman Ismayilova

The feature film "Farida" has won two awards at the international festival of films about human rights "Stalker".

The film received the Jury's diploma to the film director Ksenia Lagutina for the truthful disclosure of women's fate, while the director of the film was awarded the Special Prize of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The "Stalker" International Human Rights Film Festival is the only one in Russia and one of the world's few film screenings aimed at encouraging filmmakers to create films about human rights.

The festival was held from December 10th to 15th. The awards were presented at the closing of the festival, which took place on December 15.

The film "Farida" was shot by the Narimanfilm film company in cooperation with the St. Petersburg School of New Cinema.

The duration of the film is 70 minutes. Screenplay and director of the film Ksenia Lagutina, cameraman Dmitry Nagovsky, sound engineer Alexander Demyanov, costume designer Philip Nyrkov, make-up artist Alexandra Kosvintseva, producer Nariman Mammadov. The main role in the film is played by the young actress Maryam Ibragimova. Abdukarim Nasirov, Dilya Ulasheva and other actors also starred in the film.

The film tells about a young girl with hearing problems from the village of Khinalig, who comes to St. Petersburg to find her husband. She doesn't know anything about where he is now. The big city brings her together and divorces her with different people and turns her life upside down.

The film was shot in the genre of drama. Filming took place in St. Petersburg.

Recall that this year the film was awarded in the category "Best Director" at the 4th Gorky Fest Film Festival of Contemporary Cinema in Nizhny Novgorod, the prize for the "Best Actress" and third place at the 9th Moscow Film Festival "Let's Live".