Closing Ceremony / Abode of Dawn

Sunday, November 30

18:00

Cineplex Loteanu, hall 3

Moldox closes its 10th edition with an awards ceremony honoring the year’s most remarkable films and projects — a moment of recognition and celebration of artistic courage and voices that explore reality in all its complexity.

Awards presented:

Grand Prize of the Green Vine competition
International @Moldox Pitch Awards, granted by our international partners of the Inspiration Lab workshop.

The evening concludes with the closing film, Abode of Dawn — a profound and gripping journey into the life of an isolated Siberian taiga community, where faith, control, and the search for meaning intertwine in a haunting cinematic portrait.

A night of gratitude, reflection, and symbolic closure for a decade of stories that challenge and inspire change in Moldova.

Abode of Dawn

Director:

Kristina Shtubert

Country:

Germany

Year:

2024

Duration:

105′

Invitation-only event

In the remote Siberian Taiga, a unique community flourishes under the teachings of Vissarion, a former traffic officer who reinvented himself as a spiritual leader claiming to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Since the early 1990s, thousands have followed him seeking harmony through faith, environmentalism, and strict self-discipline, blending Russian Orthodox traditions with Buddhism, collectivism, and ecological values. His arrest in 2020 made the headlines of world news (Radio Free Europe New York Times The Guardian).

Abode of Dawn invites audiences into this surreal, self-sustaining world and explores timeless questions: Can a utopia truly exist, or will it always be shadowed by human flaws? What is the allure and danger of charismatic leadership? Is this the dream of a better world or the manipulation of a vulnerable community?