APRIL 2018 AWARDS @ MOSCOW SHORTS
BEST FILM
AINHOA
Director: Ivan Sainz-Pardo
Country: Spain
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Ainhoa is 9 years old and she has left home, bringing only her school bag and a Playmobil.
“Ainhoa is a story that, instead of trying to put children to sleep, tries to wake up the adults.”
BEST DIRECTOR
AINHOA
Director: Ivan Sainz-Pardo
Country: Spain
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Ainhoa is 9 years old and she has left home, bringing only her school bag and a Playmobil.
“Ainhoa is a story that, instead of trying to put children to sleep, tries to wake up the adults.”
BEST SCREENPLAY
Masterpiece
Director: Marc Eikelenboom
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 29:21
Synopsis: After his last book wasn’t a commercial succes a frustrated German philosophy writer decides to write a radicale different book during a road trip in America.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
AINHOA
Director: Ivan Sainz-Pardo
Country: Spain
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Ainhoa is 9 years old and she has left home, bringing only her school bag and a Playmobil.
“Ainhoa is a story that, instead of trying to put children to sleep, tries to wake up the adults.”
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Alone
Director: Antoine Laurens
Country: France
Duration: 15:25
Synopsis: Adaptation after comic book by Chaboute.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Runaway With My Heart
Director: Liu Xin
Country: China
Duration: 29:56
Synopsis: This is a realistic film based on a true story in 2002.The story is about a trafficking women who was deceived and trafficked in the big city and sold to a backward rural village. She suffered a double torture of mind and body that other people could not imagine…
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
October in Mongolia
Director: Mario Nardin
Country: Mongolia
Duration: 19:38
Synopsis: The Mongols have for centuries been a people of breeders, of a hard quality, projected in the present, without myths or consolations. However, he knows the secret fraternity that comes from a shared condition.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Tokri (The Basket)
Director: Suresh Eriyat
Country: India
Duration: 14:46
Synopsis: Two insignificant lives lost and found in time.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Intrinsic Moral Evil
Director: Harm Weistra
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 10:00
Synopsis: Intrinsic Moral Evil seems to be a tale of identity and coming of age. But above all, the three dancers play with the viewer’s perception and expectations. The layered story gradually develops; revealing its last secrets just before the end credits start. Inviting the audience to make its own interpretation.
