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Latvian sitting volleyball player wins Best Actor award at Manhattan Short film festival
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The film is based on a true story about a young man in a wheelchair, who
comes to the rescue of the girl he loves when she is mugged. The film was also
nominated for the best short film.
This past summer, Gumennikovs' film won the main prize at the Giffoni Film
Festival in Italy and was honored as the best film at the Freshflix film
festival in Australia. Just Go! also won Grand Prix at the largest Belarusian
film festival, Kinosmena, and has been doing very well at other international
film festivals.
Manhattan Short marks its 20th anniversary this year. Out of 1,615 short
films from 75 countries, only ten films were selected for the festival's final,
representing nine countries: Syria, Georgia, Switzerland, United States, Great
Britain, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Latvia.
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