MOSCOW SHORTS – SEPTEMBER 2021 AWARDS
BEST FILM
Suburban tale (2021)
Director: Péter Goretic
Country: Hungary
Duration: 22:09
Synopsis: In a peaceful neighbourhood, somewhere in the suburbs lives Patrik Kévés and his pregnant wife Mariann. Just like every other night, Mariann looks forward to see 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…
BEST DIRECTOR
Suburban tale (2021)
Director: Péter Goretic
Country: Hungary
Duration: 22:09
Synopsis: In a peaceful neighbourhood, somewhere in the suburbs lives Patrik Kévés and his pregnant wife Mariann. Just like every other night, Mariann looks forward to see 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…
BEST SCREENPLAY
Being a Ghost (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?
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Diver (2019)
Director: Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer
Country: Australia
Duration: 12:00
Synopsis: Rage, chaos and confusion consume Callan’s mind, creating a destructive environment for all those around him. Only the solitude of the underwater world is capable of soothing his volatility. But when his base instincts are left unchecked, the violence he is capable of displays its full potential.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Anita (2020)
Director: Sushma Khadepaun
Country: India
Duration: 17:34
Synopsis: While attending her sister’s wedding in India, Anita is pushed to question whether her life in America is any better than those in her hometown.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
The market man (2020)
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 neighbourhood and with the generosity of a small time boss nearby he might just find a way to redemption.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Zenerù (2021)
Director: Andrea Grasselli
Country: Italy
Duration: 30:00
Synopsis: The poetic relationship, between the ancient ritual of Zenerù and the life of the hermit shepherd Flaminio, makes us reflect on the border between domestic and wild, between known and unknown. At the end of the winter, Flaminio, a resistant shepherd, prepares materially and spiritually for the arrival of the spring through daily rituals, using the tools he built for himself: he moves and sows the ground, shears the sheep and makes a woolen suit for the new season. The communities of the valley chase the winter away with cowbells and bonfires through the ritual of Scasada dol Zenerù, which is inserted into the story of the shepherd’s life as a dreamlike element that draws on an ancestral memory. Flaminio’s sensitivity, strongly connected to Nature, allows him to perceive when it is time to call the community to act, starting the ritual.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Step into the river (2020)
Director: MA Weijia
Country: France
Duration: 14:50
Synopsis: Lu and Wei are two young girls living in a village nestled on the banks of a river. As the one-child policy has led some families to drown baby girls, they both have a special relationship with this river, which looks like a cradle of tragic stories.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
CROWD (2021)
Director: Recep Akar
Country: Turkey
Duration: 05:21
Synopsis: We construct our existence inside the void of space, surrounded by objects. Atoms, our bodies and the universe exist within this same construct. Both equally crowded and bare. “Crowd” is a single channel video that aims to perform the crowd with the void in the frame of this contrast.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Industrial (2021)
Director: Фёдор Кириллович Королёв
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 04:20
Synopsis: Short Film (Branded Content) filmed at Moscow Film School for Norilsk Nickel
