The South Kamchatka Federal Sanctuary is often called a bear paradise. The LESFILM production team headed there and spent seven months observing and filming hidden secrets the newborn bear cubs' daily lives throughout their first year on Earth. 'Kamchatka Bears. Life Begins' is a movie that differs from the other nature documentary. The film is meditative. Music, the sounds of nature and the absence of a human voice allow the viewer to plunge into the beauty of wild nature as much as possible, to feel its presence among volcanoes, rivers and wild animals, and experience an important boundary, beyond which a person should not interfere.
Best Photography Award Eco Fest International Festival of Ecology Films, Craiova, Romania
Director's Award Guro Kids International Film Festival, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Winner of the «Golden Eagle» Award 2018 in the nomination «Best Documentary» National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Winner of the Russian Geographical Society Prize 2018 in the nomination «Best Media Project» The State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia
Winner in the nomination «To Russia for Adventures» The International Tourism Film Festival «Rendezvous with Russia», Vologda, Russia
Diploma for «Professional display of the beauty of Russian nature» Sputnik Russian Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Best film in «Beauty of Nature» category EKOFILM International Environmental Film Festival, Brno, Czech Republic
Grand Prix Film festival about tourism and traveling «Russia inspires!», Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Grand Prix Zero Plus International Film Festival, Tyumen, Russia
Special Jury Prize for Cinematography Baikal International Film Festival «People and Environment» n.a. V.G. Rasputin, Irkutsk, Russia
Highly Commended Diploma Matsalu International Nature Film Festival, Lihula, Estonia
Diploma of the jury, Diploma of Savva Kulish «For ceative search» Okno Filmfest, Vyborg, Russia
Best Wildlife Wonderland Film SunChild International Environmental Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
Best Nature Film, Youth Jury Prize Gran Paradiso Film Festival, Cogne, Italy
Newcomer Award NaturVision Film Festival, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Diploma for outstanding visual solution in terms of working in extreme conditions International TV Ecological Festival «To Save and Preserve», Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Special mention Smaragdni Eco Film Festival, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia
WWF Special Mention for the best film about preservation of biodiversity CinemAmbiente International Environmental Film Festival, Torino, Italy
Prize of the Green Education Fund for Inspiring Message International Film Festival Ekotopfilm — Envirofilm, Bratislava, Slovakia
Grand Prix Ekofilm International Ecological Film Festival, Nowogard, Poland
Grand Prix, Best Cinematographer Barents Ecology Film Festival, Petrozavodsk, Russia