Director of the Russian breakout film TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (2011), Angelina Nikonova, with her golden puffin award for THE GOLDEN PUFFIN Discovery Award.

TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (Portret V Sumerkakh) tells a story of revenge between a social worker and a militia man against the modern day backdrop of a Russia ridden with social conflict.

Jury Statement

“For the extremely inspired use of cinematic language and storytelling while depicting an intriguing and provocative subject matter with unsettling, realist sensibility.”

photo by Vanessa McMahon