Three domestic dramas Sergei Oursulyak's Summertime People, Jerzi Kawalerowicz's What For?, and Unbiased and Compassionate View, directed by Alexander Soukhachev took the major honours in the competition section. They each receive a boost to their distribution by Roskomkino, which will pay for film copies. Paradise, a long-standing partner of the festival, will take care of the promotional and advertising costs for these titles. Kodak's Moscow office gave a prize of 50,000 metres of film stock to two other domestic features: Vladimir Basov's Lonely Gambler and Gennady Baisak's Agape .
The Career of Arturo Ui, directed by Boris Blank, won a special award from REKA (Russian European Cinema Association)l. Two documentary sidebar entries Requiem to Deceased Actors and Sentimental Grotesque were given special mentions, from REKA and the Russian Guild of Film Critics respectively.
The mayor of Vyborg presented a sidebar entry, the Finnish drama Thomas, with a special award for 'the human touch in a film about a problem teenager'. And Summertime People won a special 'Public Admiration' award from the mayor for its music, composed by the late Mikael Tariverdiev. Three more features Zarii Khukhim's This is Me, A Silly Girl, Grigor Gyardushyan's Empire of Pirates, and The Fatal Eggs, directed by Sergei Lomkin together with the documentary, Nocturne by Chopin, won similar awards.
For the first time a feature in production was screened Khrustalyev, Bring Me The Car! by Lenfilm's director, Alexei German. It won US$30,000 from NTV for post-production costs.
