Moscow to host Diamond Butterfly Film Award on Nov 24

Winners will receive cash prizes and the best movie will be rewarded a sum equivalent of US $1million dollars. Finalists will be presented with a “Diamond Butterfly” statue containing 5,000 diamonds made by the famous artist Yuri Kuper

Hyderabad: Entries from over 20 countries will be vying for the coveted Diamond Butterfly Film Award being hosted by Moscow on November 24, 2025.

According to Consul General of the Russian Federation in Chennai Valerii Khodzhaev, winners will receive cash prizes and the best movie will be rewarded a sum equivalent of US $1million dollars. The finalists will be presented with a “Diamond Butterfly” statue containing 5,000 diamonds and made by the famous artist Yuri Kuper whose works have been exhibited in the best art galleries of Moscow, Paris, NY, Geneva.

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This event, being organised by Eurasia Academy of Cinematographic Arts, is already equated by many with the Oscars in terms of its scale and importance and is one of the most anticipated initiatives of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian Culture Foundation aimed at promotion of national cinema as an instrument of traditional values, history and cultural sovereignty, says Khodzhaev

The changing dynamics in the international cinema market with a freshly generated vibrancy in Eurasia creates further opportunities for investment in new joint incentives that can provide a momentum to the Russia-India filmmaking collaboration and co-production.

On India-Russia film industry, Khodzhaev says: “ The positive effect of this intercultural infusion is visible in the stronger Russian-Indian bonds which beyond the political matrix transcend people-to-people affinity. The gravitational appeal towards India formed over the years in my country via cinema is inseparably linked to the names of Raj Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Hema Malini. Indian films maintain their popularity among Russians who continue to follow with keen interest the evolution of Bollywood and the current rise of Tollywood, Mollywood and Kollywood movies.

Similar ascending trajectory in the Russian cinema industry creates favorable environment for filmmaking interconnection with India that translates into intensifying contacts between film producers and actors,” he adds.