Natalia Mirzoyan's film wins 3rd prize at Cannes' La Cinef

Winter in March directed by Natalia Mirzoyan won the 3rd prize at the 28th La Cinef Selection of the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.

The animation film is produced by ArtStep Studio (Armenia) and Rebel Frame (Estonia), coproduced by the Animation Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Black Boat Pictures (France) and White Boat Pictures (Belgium), and supported by the Estonian Film Institute, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Armenian Film Foundation.

Winter in March is a stop-motion animated film that tells a story about helplessness, based on a true story of a young couple from Saint Petersburg. The film portrays their experience of being caught in a repressive state and the surreal nightmare that becomes their departure from it.

La Cinef screened 16 titles selected from among 2,700 films.