Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts June 2022
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts June 2022 – DAY 1
Vlada Goes to London (2020)
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2022
Director: Arti Savchenko
Country: Israel
Duration: 21:54
Synopsis: Vlada is a pizza delivery girl who lives in Haifa and dreams of becoming a famous DJ. Within a five-hour shift, we get a glimpse into her world full of pressure where she’s willing to do whatever it takes to find the money for a flight to perform at a festival in London.
Death and the Winemaker (2021)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2021
Director: Victor Jaquier
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 18:59
Synopsis: A young winemaker devotes himself to creating the best wine in the world, to win the hand of his beloved Mathilde – the daughter of his rich neighbor. He creates a wine so exquisite, that even Death demands to taste it. As he learns the awful truth about Mathilde’s fate, he captures Death in a barrel, ignoring the consequences on the natural order of things.
A comme Azur (2021)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2021
Director: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Country: France
Duration: 23:12
Synopsis: School is over. Benjamin is 5 years old and is going on holiday to the sea with his mother and Charlotte, his 12-year-old older sister. A COMME AZUR is the chronicle of this summer through the letters of the alphabet. During a holiday and 26 letters, Benjamin experiences his first sentimental pain and grows up. And that is how he gives himself to the vast world that hides behind words.
Stains (2020)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2022
Director: Roger Villarroya
Country: Spain
Duration: 05:00
Synopsis: A man washes his hands.
Our own land (2021)
BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2022
Director: Simon Helloco
Country: France
Duration: 22:48
Synopsis: Summer is ending, it’s silaging time in the peaceful britanny countryside. As farmers are cultivating corn, two brothers (8 and 12 years old) are alone in their big house. Left on their own, they’re in charge of this vast kingdom and live in complete freedom. They only forbid themselves to enter the first floor of the house.
Screening Programme Moscow Shorts – June 2022 – DAY 2
The Immortal (2021)
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2021
Director: Nikolay Dimitrov Urumov
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 25:00
Synopsis: Apprentice psychiatrist Dr. Pavel Hristov (33) has recurrent dreams of his patient Lazar (50). The latter tries to convince him he is his father, that Pavel is an Immortal and has to embrace his fate: kill Lazar and take his place. Pavel is mired in dreams and tries to break free – by killing himself. Yet, the Immortal Lazar gets Pavel to do his bidding. Pavel is locked up in a mental asylum; he has killed his father and his pregnant wife.
The awakening of the insects (2021)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2022
Director: Stephanie Lansaque, Francois Leroy
Country: France
Duration: 14:09
Synopsis: Hong Kong. Mr Lam is an old gentleman who loses his memory since the death of his wife. On March 5, the day of “the awakening of the hibernating insects”, he receives the unexpected visit of old Ms. Meng. This Taoist exorcist is determined to chase the demons lodging in the head of the old man.
A quiet man (2021)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2022
Director: Nyima Cartier
Country: France
Duration: 14:30
Synopsis: Paris-La Défense, the business district. From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out the window: down below, a colleague who was dismissed that morning has been sitting on a bench for hours, alone in the cold. Why won’t he go home? From the heights of his office, Pierre wonders what to do.
Gallu (2021)
BEST FILM & BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2022
Director: Kasra Tirsahar
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration: 30:00
Synopsis: A village man comes across a piece of meat by chance , after cooking and eating it realises the uncanny taste that is unknown to him . The search to find the same taste leads to a catastrophic turn of events…
Snorrie (Mustachio) (2021)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2022
Director: Victoria Warmerdam
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 11:35
Synopsis: Absurd tragicomedy about thirty-something Freek, who is reuniting with his imaginary friend from the past, who is looking for closure.
Screening Programme Moscow Shorts – JUNE 2022 – DAY 3
Out of Play (2021)
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JANUARY 2022
Director: Romi Menachem
Country: Israel
Duration: 19:59
Synopsis: Bar (12), a longtime member of the boys’ group and the class’s soccer team, dominates the field more than ever and scores the winning goal at her school’s semi-final soccer tournament. So when the team’s captain announces opening the fixed line-up for voting, she isn’t worried. Following their first sex education class, Bar senses a change in the group and feels the need to ensure her getting enough votes until the end of the school day. While going from one friend to another, having a hard time getting what she wishes for, she starts to realize that a deeper issue is at stake.
Tempête je t’aime (2022)
BEST ANIMATION & BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2022
Director: Flore Montmory
Country: France
Duration: 04:21
Synopsis: A couple leads a passionate love-life; their stormy relationship is sustained by violent rants and slow reconciliations.
Premium Baby (2019)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2022
Director: Jeanne Signé
Country: France
Duration: 12:07
Synopsis: In a near future, a couple enters a shop to buy a baby.
Where our home: Vadim Keosyan (2022)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2022
Director: Vladimir Nikolaevich Tarasov
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 12:19
Synopsis: Story of microsurgeon Vadim Keosyan known for his unique operations of returning a lost body parts. After more than 20 years of doing the impossible, he finds a new struggle – GPS swimming in cold Enisey river.
Street poet (2021)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2021
Director: Samgar Rakhym
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 29:21
Synopsis: Tanjaryq is a traditional national poet. He hopes that the national culture will continue to be passed on to thenext generation of Kazakhs. He wants to train more young people to inherit the national identity, but he can’t find pupils. One day he discovers that his son is a rapper. He realizes that rap and national poetry have a lot of similarities, so he decides to train his son to succeed him. But Tanjaryq’s plan does’t quite work out…
