genre. He is one of the most commercially successful directors of Russia. His 2017 film Naughty Grandma was a box office success and the most successful Russian film in 2017. Many of his films starred future president of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Anna's War by Aleksey Fedorchenko premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2018. The film won the Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category. Fedorchenko won the award for Best Director. 2019 comedy film Serf directed by Klim Shipenko and starring Miloš Biković set new domestic box-office records. It grossed $42.4 million against a budget of $2.6 million. The same year Shipenko directed the psychological thriller Text starring Alexander Petrov, which was also a success at the box-office and received a Nika and multiple Golden Eagle awards. In the following years many Russian films have gotten wide releases in China, and there has been an increased number of planned Russo-Chinese co-productions. A few of the films produced by Russia and China are Viy, Viy 2: Journey to China starring Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice and Quackerz. 2020s Dau, the first film of the controversial DAU project by director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, which was initially conceived as a biopic of Soviet scientist Lev Landau, premiered in 2019 in Paris. DAU. Natasha premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution. The rest of the films were released on VOD through the official DAU website in 2020. War drama Persian Lessons by Vadim Perelman premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival. At the 2020 Venice Film Festival, Dear Comrades! directed by Andrei Konchalovsky telling the story of the Novocherkassk massacre, won the Special Jury Prize. Historic romance film The Silver Skates, by Michael Lockshin in his directorial debut, was released in 2020. Yakut language drama Scarecrow by Dmitry Davydov won the main prize at the 2020 Kinotavr film festival. Yakut films, also nicknamed "Sakhawood", have been steadily gaining popularity in Russia. House Arrest by Aleksey German Jr. premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The Last Darling Bulgaria by Aleksey Fedorchenko premiered at the 2021 Moscow Film Festival. Historical war drama film Ivan Denisovich by veteran director Gleb Panfilov premiered at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. The film based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn starred Filipp Yankovsky in the main role. In 2021