Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts November 2021
Deus Ex Machina (2021)
BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JULY 2021
Director: Langlois Jessy
Country: France
Duration: 20:15
Synopsis: A young adult goes looking for his biological father. He’ll understand, when he finds out, that his daddy never ran away as he was told. His father suffers from a very little-known disease: Prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces. Even if he would regularly meet his son in the street, he would be unable to know who he is. In spite of everything, father and son will end up and help each other.
Veter (2021)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JULY 2021
Director: Andrew Katsuba
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 06:00
Synopsis: He lives in a giant field on top of a repurposed windmill, A kite-maker. And yet, It is as if wind itself avoids the place every time it is about to arrive. The man is forced then, to either wait and submit, or find a solution, for what is, his purpose when there is no wind?
Last Day Today (2021)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2021
Director: Nelson Liu Yihong
Country: Singapore
Duration: 21:03
Synopsis: Denny and Ivy run the largest movie poster business in Southeast Asia. Their retail store in Esplanade, a landmark building in Marina Bay Singapore, has a history of 16 years. In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 has severely hit the retail industry. However, the online shopping trend that has emerged as a result has provided them with new ideas. Seeing the improvement of online business, they decided not to renew the contract with Esplanade to reduce operating costs in order to survive this difficult period. What’s waiting for them was the last day of business. Moving away everything they had accumulated for 16 years, and finally bid farewell to the physical store they built by themselves. In those last days, they remembered all the past events that had happened here. The unforgettable and dumbfounded memories that allowed them to grow up came to their mind on the last day. The influx of new and old customers, friends and former employees that came to say goodbye, kept them busy the whole day. Their last day at Esplanade was spent perfectly.
Silent Zone (2020)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2021
Director: Caren Wuhrer
Country: Germany
Duration: 28:50
Synopsis: Alice, uncommunicative and electrohypersensitive, lives in seclusion in a dead zone deep in the Northern German forest. But then her hermitage is suddenly disturbed by the sex worker Lucia, who settles on the border of Alice’s safe space with her lovemobile.
Elsewhere (2020)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MARCH 2021
Director: Sylwia Kubus
Country: Germany
Duration: 06:00
Synopsis: The protagonist is leaving on a journey to the places, that remind her of the past. The woman looks back on her memories of the unhappy love and tries to leave these behind.
The School Bus (2019)
BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2021
Director: Ramazan Kılıç
Country: Turkey
Duration: 14:01
Synopsis: Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has just been appointed to a rural village school in Anatolia. She realizes that her students are struggling to arrive at school, hitchhiking tractors, using whatever means they can find. She asks the Ministry of Education for a shuttle, but without a driver, the vehicle is useless. So, she decides to be the bus driver for her students but she does not know how to drive!
