Peter Khazizov’s MANGA wins the prize ASTEROIDE. The scienceplusfiction_06 jury that took the decision was composed by the president, Harry Harrison, famous American writer, the historian and science fiction scolar, John Baxter, the curator of the BFI John Oliver, the Austrian actress Franziska Weisz and the concept designer Daniele Auber.

Khazizov’s film refers to the  urban reality of today’s Moscow -- contemporary global capital  -- and investigates on the psychological, emotional and physical tensions that streams from this process. In the jury’s opinion, the film deserved the Asteroid prize, assigned to the best feature, “for inventive use of video technology and video game imagery to reflect the dislocated lives of young people in modern Russia.”