Anna Maxim’s The Reverse Side of the Medal named Best Feature Film at 2024 Pomegranate Film Festival

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. The Reverse Side of the Medal, a sports drama by filmmaker Anna Maxim about the life and career of weightlifter Nazik Avdalyan, was named Best Feature Film at the 2024 Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. 

Having received a serious injury as a result of a car accident, Nazik Avdalyan dropped out of the big sport for 7 years, then came back and, despite the distrust of others and inhuman bodily pains, became a two-time European championship gold winner. 

The film’s director Anna Maxim portrays Avdalyan in the movie.

The cast includes Khoren Levonyan, Sos Janibekyan and Mkrtich Arzumanyan.

A video from the awarding ceremony was shared online on the film’s Facebook page.

Maxim said the Pomegranate award is her film’s first award.