Programme: Tuesday, 27th of July 2021
20:00
Screening of the Music Video and Experimental categories
Cinema: Moskino Star
98 minutes
18+
DREAM/LIFE
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2020
Director: DAVID AUFDEMBRINKE
Country: Germany
Duration: 22:00
Synopsis: A young man escapes his routine to find out what he truly wants in life. His friends refuse to participate in his endeavor, so he goes alone and arrives further than he ever would have dared to dream.
2 Down (Official Music Video)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – DECEMBER 2020
Director: Sam Farage
Country: Finland
Duration: 06:55
Synopsis: The 2 Down music video depicts a journey of a lonely backpacker in a vast, dreamlike landscape of a never-ending mountain range. The traveller seems to be completely lost in thought. Painful memories start to arise from the past and she is forced to dive into them. She must fight the demons of guilt, blame and sorrow within in order to break free from this mental dissonance and find forgiveness, acceptance and gratitude to replace them. The story is about overcoming the worst of sufferings and clearing one’s mind from agony. It’s about facing one’s deepest fears and painful emotions head on, and growing from them as a person. No one is perfect and sometimes one needs to accept what is in order to move forward in life and strive to do one’s best. Life is short, and we should be spending it loving each other instead of fighting. Ultimately, 2 Down is about gratitude towards life.
TSOY IS DEAD! (2020)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2020
Director: Alexander Solovyov
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 05:19
Synopsis: Nine-year old Kim lives in North Korea. Surrounded by a totalitarian regime every day is the same – until the moment when Viktor Tsoy’s rock concert interferes with the usual TV Signal. Kim is shocked by what he sees and becomes obsessed by the rock star, trying to move and dance like him. Kim is not the same person anymore, but will his new personality be accepted by his surroundings?
Kilter
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – DECEMBER 2020
Director: Rob Stanton-Cook
Country: Australia
Duration: 11:36
Synopsis: Kilter explores the wreckage left in the wake of generational toxic masculinity. Following a violent crime of passion, a gentle young man descends into a tormented reality as he struggles to reconcile who he is and what he has become.
Said No Lover
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2020
Director: Miguel Rodrick
Country: United States
Duration: 04:00
Synopsis: Music Video for the song Said No Lover by Aaron Gibson & Nahuel Bronzini. A song about leaving everything you love, and the demons that follow you.
MADBEN – GRIEF, DANCE TO DEATH
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2020
Director: CHARLES KERAMOAL, NICOLAS PASQUET, SYLVAIN LEFEBVRE
Country: France
Duration: 04:00
Synopsis: A soldier wakes up in a desertic landscape. Completly lost, he walks for days and weeks before encountering a mysterious object.
The Secret Walls (2020)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – FEBRUARY 2021
Director: Anne Charrin, Lise Charrin, Aude Charrin, Jean-Marie Gatin
Country: France
Duration: 14:25
Synopsis: (freely inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy) A theatre in the rain, people outside crowding to get in. A tired man comes through the stage door where a child -the master of the place- has been waiting for him. Engulfed in that theatrical machinery and caught up in the beguiling cogs of time, guided by some unknown force, the man plunges deep into a maelstrom of many faces…
Bi-2 — God of the Jilted (2020)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2021
Director: Vladimir Besedin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 03:43
Synopsis: A person deprived of love can become a monster is the main idea of the video. This is the story of the ugly duckling. But unlike Andersen’s fairy tale, where the hero’s suffering is rewarded and he becomes a beautiful swan, there is no happy ending here – revenge follows the insults.
ПUZZLE (2020)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2021
Director: Anastasiya Sovashchenko
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: This film is about the moment when a person creates something unique and creative. We will consider what the process consists of, what hinders it and what helps. It’s like traveling from room to room, where dance parts that symbolize details of puzzle that called “Creativity” We use a novel narrative structure And single-frame shooting. Hidden cuts will help us to match parts together adds continuity to the movie.
Ekaterina Yashnikova – Recover (2020)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: Yulia Uzkikh
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 05:13
Synopsis: Touching musical road movie about best friends who don’t want to grow up. Three boys go on the road in an old orange car. Where will they go?
