Anna Melikyan‘s Pro Lyubov (About Love), a collection of romantic urban tales, was named 2015’s best Russian movie at the Golden Eagles ceremony, the Hollywood Reporter says.

The awards show was held at Moscow’s film studio Mosfilm on Friday, January 29.

Anna Melikyan is a Russian-Armenian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with several awards. After her participation at Sundance Film Festival she was listed in the TOP 10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine. In 2008 Melikian’s “Mermaid,” (Rusalka, 2007) was awarded by the Berlin International Film Festival Prize.

Besides, Melikyan won the grand prize on June 14 of the 26th Kinotavr Open Russian film festival for the same film, receiving Prize of Film Distributor’s Jury.

The annual Kinotavr is the most important Russian film festival and also the world’s largest of national cinema. In 2014, Anna Melikyan won the best director prize at Kinotavr.

Back at the Golden Eagles, Stanislav Govorukhin collected the best director’s award for Konets Prekrasnoy Epokhi (The End Of a Beautiful Epoch), set in the 1960s and based on a novella by renowned Russian 20th century author Sergei Dovlatov.

Alexander Mindadze received the best screenplay award for Mily Khans, dorogoi Pyotr (Lovely Hans, Dear Peter).

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman was named the year’s best foreign film. It was nominated alongside James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything and Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

Yulia Peresild, the female lead of Bitva za Sevastopol (Battle for Sevastopol) was awarded as the best actress, and Fyodor Bondarchuk collected the best actor trophy for his role in Prizrak (Ghost).

Veteran director Nikita Mikhalkov, who won an Oscar in the best foreign language film category for Burnt by the Sun back in 1995, received a lifetime achievement award.

The Golden Eagles were founded by Mikhalkov in 2002 as a rival to the older national awards, the Nikas.