MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022 AWARDS
BEST FILM
Mergen (2021)
Director: Raiymbek Alzhanov
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 26:22
Synopsis: On the strife-torn Central Asian steppe, the boy Mergen must defend his family in the place of his absent father. He will do so with courage, cunning, and above all, a mystical gift from his grandmother. An exciting historical thriller enriched with ancient magic.
BEST DIRECTOR
Mergen (2021)
Director: Raiymbek Alzhanov
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 26:22
Synopsis: On the strife-torn Central Asian steppe, the boy Mergen must defend his family in the place of his absent father. He will do so with courage, cunning, and above all, a mystical gift from his grandmother. An exciting historical thriller enriched with ancient magic.
BEST SCREENPLAY
Au79 (2022)
Director: Rafael Hovhannisyan
Country: Armenia
Duration: 06:14
Synopsis: Valery is a retiree working as a night watchman in a newly built building. He inherited gold from his grandfather of blessed memory, which neither his daughter nor his son nor even his wife saw except him. After Armine’s death, Valery had to take her gold from home, keep it in a deserted place away from Emma’s and Ashot’s eyes. On that horrible day, he had no idea what could happen to him, that the history what had happened to his grandfather : the elder Valery could repeat.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mergen (2021)
Director: Raiymbek Alzhanov
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 26:22
Synopsis: On the strife-torn Central Asian steppe, the boy Mergen must defend his family in the place of his absent father. He will do so with courage, cunning, and above all, a mystical gift from his grandmother. An exciting historical thriller enriched with ancient magic.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Au79 (2022)
Director: Rafael Hovhannisyan
Country: Armenia
Duration: 06:14
Synopsis: Valery is a retiree working as a night watchman in a newly built building. He inherited gold from his grandfather of blessed memory, which neither his daughter nor his son nor even his wife saw except him. After Armine’s death, Valery had to take her gold from home, keep it in a deserted place away from Emma’s and Ashot’s eyes. On that horrible day, he had no idea what could happen to him, that the history what had happened to his grandfather : the elder Valery could repeat.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Turn Over (2022)
Director: TING TU
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 11:00
Synopsis: A poor homeless man knows there is a lot of food in an art gallery. He sneaks into the art gallery because he is hungry. He eats a lot of cake and then falls asleep in this warm gallery by accident. He lies flat on the floor. He is considered as a performance art by rich people. When the homeless man wakes up, people clap and shake his hand. He knows what has happened through those people’s actions. He knows it would be a life-changing moment. At this moment, he decides to pretend to be an artist. It presents a comedic allegory about modern art and a trenchant satire of the disparity between the rich and the poor. It is a comic allegory of modern art and a sharp satire of capitalist class differences.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
My own colors (2021)
Director: Brenda Elizabeth Garcia Lopez
Country: Mexico
Duration: 14:27
Synopsis: Lalo a 14 year old boy, is forced to leave his house home in which he lived for more than twelve years due to Covid 19 pandemic; He will need to face his new reality. He is more than welcome at his aunt Mayela ́s house, but he will live with twelve more people; in a reality in which their parents are gone, they must leave school and begin to work.
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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Where our home: Natalia Ryzhova (2022)
Director: Dmitry Andreevich Kvashnin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 10:29
Synopsis: Story of adaptive crossfit athlete Natalia Ryzhova, know for her incredible power skills. She is first Russian adaptive athlete representative in World championship. She also happy mother and singer, and coaches people with disabilities around the world.
BEST ANIMATION
SKAZ: Sirin’s Song (2022)
Director: Matt Lashko
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 14:29
Synopsis: A hermit finds a village girl lost in the woods. On their way home through sacred places they encounter a mysterious force, threatening the existence of all life in the Forest.
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BEST ANIMATION
Stop. Look. Go. (2022)
Director: Sneha Dasng
Country: India
Duration: 05:34
Synopsis: A man contemplates his entire life to understand how everything shaped him up to be where he is now.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Dirty Art Hairdressing (2021)
Director: Kirill Sarychev
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 25:48
Synopsis: An art group of hairdressers from St. Petersburg explains how the hair can express emotional state of the human soul. Experimenting with shapes, ideas and materials, crazy craftsmen create shocking things that are completely uncommon for the beauty industry. Is the hair a wealth or an atavism, your personal home or means communication, an art or some kind of game. Is it place on the head or in a trash bin? Crazy hairdressers argue about it.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
REKA WW – SALT (2022)
Director: Egor Gavrilin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 05:23
Synopsis: In this story, the protagonist makes a journey into the very heart of a dense dark forest to undergo the rite of purification.
