- The last winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Award, Pavel Ilyich Talankin, will visit Valencia to open the Pau i Justícia Award of the Foundation for Justice and present the new film 'Mr. Nobody against Putin' at l'Humans Fest
- On May 29, the documentary will be screened at the Filmoteca Valenciana, also in the presence of co-director David Borenstein and assistant director Katya Kize
- The Valencia International Film and Human Rights Festival will celebrate the 2026 edition from May 28 to June 6
Valencia, April 29, 2026.- The International Film and Human Rights Festival of Valencia, Humans Fest, announces its honorary guard: the Peace and Justice Prize 2026 It will be for the professor and videographer rus Pavel Ilyich Talankin. The recentment Oscar winner The co-director of the documentary 'Mr Nobody against Putin' will receive the award on May 28, at the opening ceremony of the XVII Humans Fest that will be held at the MuVIM starting at 5 p.m.
Pavel Ilyich Talankin will visit Valencia from May 28 to 31, accompanied by the documentary filmmaker and co-director of the film David Borenstein and the assistant director Katya Kize, the director team responsible for the documentary ‘'Mr. Nobody Against Putin'’. The film, winner of the Oscar for Millor Documentary in the latest edition of the Hollywood Academy awards, es veurà at the Valencian Film Library on May 29 in a project that will be accompanied by col·loqui amb l'equip.
Humans Fest, the festival of the Foundation for Justice reconeix així Talankin's key in the defense of the rights of childhood and youth, central theme of the enguany festival, in an edition the program of which will appeal to act without excuses to defend, protect and guarantee the rights of those who come darrere.
Professor Talankin has finished the premiere of the documentary with a master and videographer of a Karabash primary school, in Txeliabinsk Oblast, Russia. There he documents how the Russian government transformed classrooms into authentic patriotic propaganda machines, converting them into recruitment centers for soldiers to mobilize them to the Ukrainian front.
He will capture and narrate everything in the film 'Mr Nobody Against Putin', which will premiere at Sundance and win the BAFTA award for best documentary in order to win the Oscar in the category. The international recognitions, however, have been accompanied by exile: Putin's government is going to declare a 'foreign agent' and he is going to add to the list of outlaws in March any year. The release of the documentary to Russia has, moreover, been prohibited by a court ruling that states that the documentary ‘transmits a negative attitude toward the Russian Government and the special military operation.’ Talankin came to the Mexican Republic from the aleshores.
The Peace and Justice Prize, which is provided by the Fundación por la Justicia within the framework of the festival, is the finale of Reconceive the trajectory of an audiovisual personality or entity linked to the defense and dissemination of Human Rights. In previous editions, the award has been given to documentary filmmaker Hernán Zin, the Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival, the first film and human rights festival in Palestine, director Isabel Coixet, and filmmakers Waad Al-Kateab and Josefina Molina. Actors, producers, and filmmakers such as Abdelatif Hwidar, Pepe Viyuela, Silvia Munt, Juan Diego Botto, Montxo Armendáriz, and Puy Oria, among others, have also received the award.
He kept recognizing the task of those who compromise human rights and justice through audiovisuals. The awarded people and entities are characterized by the dedication of their professional lives to posing in the light of col·lectius to whom their rights are systematically violated. They are trajectories that are characterized by a cinema committed to international cooperation, health, education, the judicial system, the penitentiary system and the defense of rights.
Humans Fest is part of the international Human Rights Film Network, together with three 52 film and human rights festivals worldwide and is a qualifying competition for the Goya Awards in the Curtmetratges category. The 17th edition is made thanks to the Valencian Institute of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana; the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA); the Provincial Council of Valencia; Caixa Popular, the Valencian Coordinator of NGOD (CVONGD) and the collaboration of the Department of Social Services, Family and Children, the General Directorate of Inclusion and Development Cooperation and Teika. For its part, the Valencian radio and television station, À Punt, is the official mitjà of the festival.
CONTACT PREMSA HUMANS FEST:
FRANCESC MIRÓ (+34 690 659 855)
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