The Winners of the 2021 Annual Edition of Moscow Shorts
BEST FILM
ARCHIBALD´S SYNDROME (2019)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JULY 2020
Director: DANIEL PEREZ
Country: France
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: Archibald was born with some curious curse: he can’t make a move without everyone around doing the same.Now, grown man, he robs by despair a bank and, there, meets Indiana, a young woman who always escaped every form of control.
BEST NARRATIVE
DAVID (2020)
BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – FEBRUARY 2021
Director: Zachary Woods
Country: United States
Duration: 11:40
Synopsis: David needs help. So does David. A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.
BEST RUSSIAN SHORT FILM
Quarantine (2020)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2020
Director: Aleksandr Khant
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 14:20
Synopsis: Irina works as an accountant. In the middle of a coronavirus pandemic she decides to go to
the office to transfer salaries to the company’s employees. However, her plan falls apart when she meets Boris, the paranoid security guard who protects the office not only from robbers but also from the virus itself.
BEST DIRECTOR
The Saverini Widow (2020)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: Loïc Gaillard
Country: France
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Bonifacio 1883, extreme south of Corsica. The widow of the late Saverini lives in an isolated house near the cliffs, with her only son Antoine, and her dog. During the day, she assists women giving birth in town. One night her son is killed in a clash. The murderer flees to Sardinia. Her world falls to pieces…
BEST СINEMATOGRAPHY
CHARON (2020)
BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Cinematographer: Herve Roesch
Director: Yannick Karcher
Country: France
Duration: 15:42
Synopsis: Freshly retired, a man doesn’t know how to occupy his days. For fear of being killed by boredom, he gets involved in the crazy project of building a boat in the cellar of his suburban house.
BEST SCREENPLAY
Wings of the Spirit (2019)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MAY 2020
Writer: Albert Meisl
Director: Albert Meisl
Country: Austria
Duration: 29:02
Synopsis: The failed Viennese musicologist Szabo works as an animal career and house sitter for wealthy people. But when visited by his successful, younger ex-colleague Fitzthum, a rare parrot, which he should guard, escapes him. Szabo sees his already precarious life in shambles, but Fitzthum has a brilliant idea and together they go out in search of a doppelganger of the precious animal.
BEST STUDENT
EINE SCHOKOLADEN LAMPE
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2021
Director: Andrius Bartkus
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 23:00
Synopsis: A risk-averse man invests not his money in a profitable business
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BY THE RIVER
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: Daniel Braga Ulvestadd
Country: Australia
Duration: 25:00
Synopsis: Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of achieving moksha – becoming liberated from the cycle of rebirth. Several so-called ‘death hotels’ exist to accommodate believers who abandon their lives and come here in wait for death – some for as long as 40 years.
BEST ANIMATION
Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea… (2019)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – FEBRUARY 2021
Director: Marion Lacourt
Country: France
Duration: 12:11
Synopsis: At night, while family members indulge in curious rituals before sleeping, a child invokes a wolf from the bottom of a box hidden under his bed. Disturbing sheep then besiege the door of his bedroom….
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
DREAM/LIFE
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2020
Director: DAVID AUFDEMBRINKE
Country: Germany
Duration: 22:00
Synopsis: A young man escapes his routine to find out what he truly wants in life. His friends refuse to participate in his endeavor, so he goes alone and arrives further than he ever would have dared to dream.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Bi-2 — God of the Jilted (2020)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2021
Director: Vladimir Besedin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 03:43
Synopsis: A person deprived of love can become a monster is the main idea of the video. This is the story of the ugly duckling. But unlike Andersen’s fairy tale, where the hero’s suffering is rewarded and he becomes a beautiful swan, there is no happy ending here – revenge follows the insults.
BEST ACTOR
Fred Hechinger from
DAVID (2020)
BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – FEBRUARY 2021
Director: Zachary Woods
Country: United States
Duration: 11:40
Synopsis: David needs help. So does David. A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.
BEST ACTRESS
Christiane Conil from
The Saverini Widow (2020)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: Loïc Gaillard
Country: France
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Bonifacio 1883, extreme south of Corsica. The widow of the late Saverini lives in an isolated house near the cliffs, with her only son Antoine, and her dog. During the day, she assists women giving birth in town. One night her son is killed in a clash. The murderer flees to Sardinia. Her world falls to pieces…
