19-24 November students of Faculty of Journalism managed not only to watch the competitive program of the festival but to vote for the best students short movie.
In total the journalists watched only 4 programs which included the class, term and graduation projects of VGIK students. Every day SUSU students chose the best out of 24 works of fiction and nonfiction films. According to the voting the winner of the first day was the film "Author's Method" by Ivan Shakhnazarov, the second day - "Death's Dance" by Yuliya Novicheva and the third day - "Not With Us" by Svetlana Sigalaeva.
In the contest the works of the following creative workshops were presented: Khotinenko V.I., Agranovich M.L., Shakhnazarov K.G. and Shukher O.B., Akhadov V.B., Uchitel A.E., Maslennikov I.F., Proshkin A.A., Menshov V.V., Abdrashitov V.Y., Sirenko A.V.
The students-spectators chose the films which made them think over the everlasting life values. Finally, the absolute winner was the film "Not With Us" by Svetlana Sigalaeva.
Lyudmila Petrovna Shesterkina, Dean of Faculty of Journalism, noted: "It is that festival when we have to say "remember those names". It means that in future many of these students-authors of short films will become great filmmakers and our country will be proud of them. And for the students-journalists it is a great opportunity to write their articles and reviews in the sphere of cinematographic art and feel new creative area".
At the end of XXXII VGIK International Festival the collection of reviews has been published and 80% of this collection consists of the works of SUSU Faculty of Journalism students.