An excerpt from the film was screened at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2017 , as part of its Works in Progress program . The completed film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in September 2018 , where Baigazin won the award for Best Director in the Horizons program . Its second screening was in the Platform program at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival , where it received an honorable mention from the Platform Prize jury
75th Venice International Film Festival
75th Venice International Film Festival
The River (2018 film)