Winner The Živojin Pavlović Award for Best Director and the Audience Award

Can a director, a film artist, create a cinematic space in which existential questions and the human condition are examined in a novel and authentic way? Can a film director transform this cinematic space by conveying the truth and hidden phenomena of life? Andrei Tarkovsky once exclaimed: “The poet does not use ‘descriptions’ of the world; he himself has a hand in its creation.”  For the authentic and novel approach in creating a cinema of poetry, for giving new meaning and dimension to the liturgical experience through film The Živojin Pavlović Award for Best Director goes to Yelena Popovic for her masterpiece Man of God (Yelena Popovic, Greece, 2021).

Man Of God

Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God.

Credits

• Yelena Popovic

Director/Writer

• Alexandros Potter

  Producer

• Aris Servetalis

  Key Cast

  "Nektarios"

• Alexander Petrov

  Key Cast

  "Costas"

• Mickey Rourke

  Key Cast

  "Paralyzed Man"

  The Wrestler, Angel Heart, 9 1/2 Weeks

• Zbigniew Preisner

  Music

  Three Colors: Blue, White Red; The Double Life of Veronique; Elisa

• Lisa Gerrard

  Music

  Gladiator; Ali; The Insider; I Frankenstein; Son of God