Programme: Sunday, 25th of July 2021
16:30
Screening of the Documentary category
Cinema: Moskino Fakel
113 minutes
18+
Robin Food
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2020
Director: Pavel Maximov
Country: Italy
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: Robin Food is a non-profit and pay-as-you-feel restaurant with a mission: rescue, cook and serve food that otherwise would go to waste. The restaurant is saving fruit and vegetables from markets and farms to raise public awareness on issues of food waste, sustainability and climate change in the most tangible and delicious way possible: a tasty meal. Robin Food location: Sirkin St 24, Haifa, Israel
Year of the robot
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2020
Director: Yves Gellie
Country: France
Duration: 30:00
Synopsis: At the intersection of art and science, L’année du robot (Year of the robot) depicts the human being and the robot as its artificial counterpart. As a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and dialogue between a robot gifted with an artificially created autonomy and human beings, it studies cognitive dissonance, a minute, mysterious relational space sitting between the two actors. It involves elderly people sometimes afflicted with Alzheimer’s or dementia, or young adults with autism or neurological problems. Once past the surprise phase and aware of the artificial nature of the robot’s functioning, the residents try, despite everything, to forge bonds with it.
Consuming Contemporary
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – SEPTEMBER 2020
Director: Ana Aleksovska
Country: Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Duration: 25:00
Synopsis: A bunch of seniors enjoys Skopje’s cultural events on a daily basis, as well as the food offered there. When societal judgment is about to stop their way of having fun – they realize how much more this habit means to them.
BY THE RIVER
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: DANIEL
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.
Garage Romantic (2021)
BEST FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2021
Director: Daniel Sadgrove
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 12:35
Synopsis: A big dreamer from the small town of Togliatti, Russia ponders life while building a rocket powered sled made from discarded trash.
