Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts February 2022
DAY 1 – Moscow Shorts February 2022
Walk a Mile (2019)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Judith Cowley
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: Grumpy old Russ (Jeffrey Thomas) lives next door to a noisy family, whom he hates. But when something happens to his neighbors, he changes his mind.
Ink Ocean (2021)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Cinematographers: Ivan Solomatin, Dmitry Mishin, Egor Myasnikov
Director: Ivan Sosnin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 17:22
Synopsis: The young sailor Sasha travels the world and sends letters to his father from every town where the ship stops. However, all his letters remain unanswered for years. Sasha hasn’t seen his father since childhood, he doesn’t have his phone number, only his mailing address. One-way letters had become a kind of ritual for him. Once, returning home from a voyage, the sailor finds a letter in his mailbox.
TIO (2021)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: JUAN MEDINA
Country: Mexico
Duration: 12:40
Synopsis: On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenager will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors.
Being a Ghost (2021)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Director: Sebastian Friedmann
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 18:30
Synopsis: An encounter between two ghosts in a spa. Serge realizes what has happened to him. Martial disapproves of this young rebel who’s disrupting his normal routine. Will they be able to get along?
FRIEND (2021)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Andrey Svetlov
Country: Belarus
Duration: 20:30
Synopsis: “Friend” is a movie about two warring school students. One of them dreams of a new smartphone, the other of a simple friendship. By chance, they find themselves in a common predicament from which they will have to get out. It’s a rich, day-long story spiced with chases, childish adventurism, and light humor.
DAY 2 – Moscow Shorts – February 2022
It’s Cold (2021)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Writer: Danil Ivanov
Director: Danil Ivanov
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 10:00
Synopsis: It wants to be a good police officer, but it’s very cold in Russia. In the Russian hinterland, two police officers are sent on a mission. The task before them is quite simple, but the peculiarities of the local climate create a serious obstacle to its implementation.
The market man (2020)
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Director: Paola Cireddu
Country: Italy
Duration: 19:15
Synopsis: Mario collects crates from the fruit and vegetable market to sell on for a few cents. He carries them on his back, ten at time, well fastened with a rope. All his co-workers have the advantage of having a means of transport, even though this kind of work is tricky at the best of times. It’s very competitive and scarce, and carrying the crates on foot becomes increasingly harder. And so, on his path fraught with obstacles on his lonely and alienated search for crates Mario hopes that maybe a benefactor will come forward and provide him with a secondhand 3 wheeler vehicle. Amongst his intimidators in his neighborhood and with the generosity of a small-time boss nearby he might just find a way to redemption.
in silence (2021)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Egor Trukhin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 18:59
Synopsis: Lonely people wander the empty Saint-Petersburg trying to seize the last pieces of something dear they used to have: music, the loved one, memories… We have all faced or will definitely face the absolute absence of something warm coming hometown once. The place of birth and childhood suddenly become almost empty for us. The void only. You want to scream and only silence in return.
Brussels-Beirut (2020)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Thibaut Wohlfahrt, Samir Youssef
Country: Belgium
Duration: 27:00
Synopsis: After living in Europe for several years, Ziad returns to visit his family in his North Lebanon hometown at the Syrian border. When he arrives, the tension is palpable. Ziad tries to reconnect with his family despite a threat eating away at the inhabitants.
Soft Rain (2021)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Sacha Goedegebure
Country: Singapore
Duration: 07:00
Synopsis: A man suffering from depression is caught in a sudden downpour of pink, fluffy balls. At a crowded bus stop, a cheerful looking woman offers him an umbrella, and together they enjoy the soft rain.
DAY 3 – Moscow Shorts – February 2022
BUNNY (2021)
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JULY 2021
Director: Tatiana Ra
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 23:30
Synopsis: Vanya is 7 years old, he is a wizard and friend of the defective Bunny, but his parents are seriously concerned about the boy’s strange behavior, worried about his unwillingness to communicate with his peers, and about his ailment: severe stuttering. His mother, having tried all the possibilities to help her child, decides to take him to the well-known neighborhood healer. To speak properly does not mean to be understood. Sometimes one hug can heal both a broken knee and a broken heart.
Bianco (2021)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Ahmed Khaled Deiab
Country: Egypt
Duration: 08:13
Synopsis: Among the flying dust, rubble, and loud equipment sound, Nathan Doss, the artist, is working on his new piece of art. Can any beauty spring out of the womb of this chaos?
Suburban tale (2021)
BEST FILM & BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Director: Péter Goretic
Country: Hungary
Duration: 22:09
Synopsis: In a peaceful neighborhood, somewhere in the suburbs lives Patrik Kévés and his pregnant wife Mariann. Just like every other night, Mariann looks forward to seeing his public safety officer husband after his duty. But this night turns out to be much different to every other. Patrik tells his wife, he is going to leave her. The woman loses her temper and hit her husband in the head with a frozen catfish. Patrik drops to the ground, and our story takes a few other interesting turns…
Detektive Thumb and The Infinity House (2021)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Preston King
Country: United States
Duration: 05:53
Synopsis: A detective is eaten alive by a house.
Still fighting (2021)
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JULY 2021
Director: Arthur Lecouturier
Writers: Arthur Lecouturier, Raphaël Baudet, Regina Bikkinina
Country: Belgium
Duration: 19:59
Synopsis: Whatever the risks, Polina has travelled across Europe to get her daughter back. Arriving in Belgium, gun in hand, she discovers a peaceful family scene, a loving father and a well-behaved child. Destabilised, can Polina still trust her intuition?
Moscow –
February 7 at 19:30
February 8 at 21:30
February 9 at 21:30
Kirov –
February 10 at 19:00
February 11 at 19:00
February 12 at 18:00
Tyumen –
February 10 at 19:00
February 11 at 19:00
February 12 at 19:00
Khabarovsk –
February 10 at 19:00
February 11 at 19:00
February 12 at 19:00
Kazan –
February 14 at 19:00
February 15 at 19:00
February 16 at 19:00
St. Petersburg –
February 14 at 19:30
February at 15 19:30
February at 16 19:30
Krasnodar –
February 16 at 19:30
February 17 at 19:30
February 18 at 19:30
Kaluga –
February 18 at 19:30
February 19 at 18:00
February 20 at 17:00
