Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts November 2022
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts November 2022 – DAY 1
Quarantine (2020)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2020
Director: Aleksandr Khant
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 14:20
Synopsis: Irina works as an accountant. In the middle of a coronavirus pandemic she decides to go to the office to transfer salaries to the company’s employees. However, her plan falls apart when she meets Boris, the paranoid security guard who protects the office not only from robbers but also from the virus itself.
Nobody Dies Here
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2018
Director: Simon Panay
Country: France
Duration: 23:21
Synopsis: Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.
Mgzavrebi – Promise
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – OCTOBER 2018
Director: Ivan Sosnin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 04:59
Synopsis: A couple of elders escape from a retirement home, hijack a truck and drive to the sea. They go shopping, buying things for a handful of pills, swim in the pool, make selfies on a stolen phone, float on serf on the waves. Live their lives to the fullest. Main heroes of the clip are 85 and 86 years old. The whole video was filmed on the phone.
The Saverini Widow (2020)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: Loïc Gaillard
Country: France
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Bonifacio 1883, extreme south of Corsica. The widow of the late Saverini lives in an isolated house near the cliffs, with her only son Antoine, and her dog. During the day, she assists women giving birth in town. One night her son is killed in a clash. The murderer flees to Sardinia. Her world falls to pieces…
FRIEND (2021)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Director: Andrey Svetlov
Country: Belarus
Duration: 20:30
Synopsis: “Friend” is a movie about two warring school students. One of them dreams of a new smartphone, the other of a simple friendship. By chance, they find themselves in a common predicament from which they will have to get out. It’s a rich, day-long story spiced with chases, childish adventurism, and light humor.
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts – November 2022 – DAY 2
The Victory of Charity
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2018
Director: Albert Meisl
Country: Austria
Duration: 24:14
Synopsis: Szabo is a musicologist devoted to collecting archives of Austrian pop music. When the original stage outfit of a 1960s Viennese beat group ends up at the charity shop, Szabo will do whatever it takes to get it back.
CHARON (2020)
BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – NOVEMBER 2020
Director: Yannick Karcher
Country: France
Duration: 15:42
Synopsis: Freshly retired, a man doesn’t know how to occupy his days. For fear of being killed by boredom, he gets involved in the crazy project of building a boat in the cellar of his suburban house.
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.
ARCHIBALD´S SYNDROME (2019)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JULY 2020
Director: DANIEL PEREZ
Country: France
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: Archibald was born with some curious curse: he can’t make a move without everyone around doing the same.Now, grown man, he robs by despair a bank and, there, meets Indiana, a young woman who always escaped every form of control.
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts – November 2022 – DAY 3
THE 100TH VICTIM (2018)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2019
Director: Anthony von Seck
Country: Canada
Duration: 19:45
Synopsis: A truck stop diner, a killer confesses his bizarre experiments to a blogger for the LA Times. An unassuming middle-aged man shares his appetite for twisting fate and playing God. He has polaroids of his ninety-nine victims, by the end of their meal, one of them will be the next.
It’s Cold (2021)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – AUGUST 2021
Writer: Danil Ivanov
Director: Danil Ivanov
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 10:00
Synopsis: It wants to be a good police officer, but it’s very cold in Russia. In the Russian hinterland, two police officers are sent on a mission. The task before them is quite simple, but the peculiarities of the local climate create a serious obstacle to its implementation.
Feeling Through (2020)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2021
Director: Doug Roland
Country: United States
Duration: 18:17
Synopsis: Feeling Through, the first film to star a DeafBlind actor, is a coming of age story that follows Tereek, a teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash when he encounters Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home. From an awkward meeting between strangers emerges an intimate bond, and a journey that forever changes Tereek.
Bet on Yourself (2019)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – FEBRUARY 2020
Director: Harvey Eaton
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 20:25
Synopsis: John Reeve, an 80 year old entrepreneur who started his life in war-torn England, now lives in the Caribbean as a cruise ship excursion mogul. John owned an island-themed nightclub in the centre of Coventry, hosting crooners like Dusty Springfield, Liberace and Tom Jones. He intrepidly sailed across the Atlantic with no experience and no motor, has crashed at least three airplanes and two boats, lived with Pygmy Indians, had his skull caved in with a 4ft iron pipe, escaped from a Grenadian revolution, and entered the ’88 Winter Olympics as the US Virgin Islands bobsled team (yes, the same year as the Jamaicans). Nothing in life has ever stopped John and he is an inspiration for everyone to go out, make mistakes and make a mark on the world.
