12/03/2008

Heading the jury at the 10th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, writer and former president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel presented the award that bears his name to the Swiss documentary Letter to Anna [+see also:
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The title received its premiere screening in Berlin on February 10 as part of the Cinema for Peace event and will soon be presented at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon (April 17-23).

The film by Eric Bergkraut paints a cinematic portrait of Russian journalist Anna Politovskaïa, who was assassinated in Moscow in October 2006. The Swiss director had met her in 2003 when making his documentary Coca – The Dove from Chechnya.

(Translated from French)