In a week when the Winter Olympics opened in Sochi and Russia’s attitudes to homosexuality garnered considerable coverage, Clermont-Ferrand named an Eastern European coming out short its Grand Prix winner.
Pavel Veskanov’s 30-minute drama took the festival’s main award. In a 60+ field of conetenders, none of the trio of Antipodean titles, James Fleming & Kelly Hucker’s Ghost Train, Miranda Nation’s Perception and Kiwi Adam Gunser’s Killing Phillip, were named winners.
