Chechnya: Ramasan Minkailov

Ramasan Minkailov: Director Subadeh Mortezais Macondo screened Friday. It stars 11-year-old Ramasan Minkailov as a boy whose family is seeking asylum in Austria after his father was killed in Chechnya, while his mother struggles to make ends meet in an unfamiliar society, according to 660 News. Macondo is one of 20 contenders for Berlins top Golden Bear award. An eight-member jury will announce the winner Saturday and A movie with an amateur cast about a Chechen boy growing up between two cultures in a tough Vienna neighbourhood is screening at the Berlin International Film Festival as the jury prepares to choose this years winner. Mortezai said she wanted to approach immigration and integration from a different perspective and show Austrian society from the point of view of outsiders in which the fringe is the centre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.