Michale Boganim
The focus of Michale’s 2001 graduation film Dust, was the Jewish community of Odessa. It won her four awards in the first year of its release, including Best Short Documentary at FIKE, and the Louis Le Prince Award for.Best Short Documentary at Leeds International Film Festival.
In 2002 Michale won the Gras Savoye Award at Cannes for a film she made about the mysterious life of her great uncle, entitled Mémoires incertaines.
After a filmic study of Macau, a small Portuguese colony in Aisa, Michale went back to the subject matter of her graduation film - a feature-length investigation into the Jewish community she’d got to know so well. The result, Odessa… Odessa! was nominated for the Grand Prize for Best World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance International Film Festival, and won the C.I.C.A.E. Award in the Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Michale’s latest project currently in production is On the Pripyat River, about the Chernobyl disaster-afflicted river that runs through Ukraine and Belarus.
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