Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts October 2021
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.
2020 (2021)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MAY 2021
Director: Katya Telegina
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 05:00
Synopsis: The video project “2020” is an attempt to understand and feel what is happening in 2020 through the art forms of dance and video. The film is the result of a collaboration between prima ballerina Diana Vishneva, choreographer Pavel Glukhov and director Katya Telegina.
Wichita (2020)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MAY 2021
Director: Sergine Dumais
Country: United States
Duration: 05:35
Synopsis: Sara is in bed with her lover when her husband calls. When he asks for something in his sock drawer, she runs home, stalling for time, asking endless questions about Wichita, Kansas.
It’s So Charming (2021)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MAY 2021
Director: Svend Colding
Country: Denmark
Duration: 27:13
Synopsis: Silvia, who is pregnant, is at her parents in-law wedding anniversary, and she has been looking forward to it because its the first time she is meeting her boyfriend’s, Christian, side of the family. Though she quickly realises, that Christian has a horrible relationship with his father, Thorsten. Silvia and Christian had planned to announce the pregnancy, but can’t seem to find an appropriate time for it, due to the dysfunctional father-son relationship. Therefore Silvia decides to reconcile the 2 men, though this Is proving easier said than done. “It is so Lovely” is a comedy-drama, which the main theme is being able to set boundaries, even though there may not be an appropriate time for doing this.
Three Bull-Mastiffs in a Corner Kitchen (2021)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – MAY 2021
Director: Paul Chambers
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 12:51
Synopsis: A man looks back on his younger years and relives some of the moments that led him into his troubles with addiction in later life, he looks backwards with a mature wisdom that flows as poetry, an old head looking through young eyes, or a young mind looking forward to a rocky future, drug abuse and alcohol, spiralling behaviour and a loss of control. A true story featuring people with lived experience of addiction, toxic masculinity and false idols. A punk film with an authentic poetry that runs as an autobiographical stream of consciousness. Young and older Sam (played by himself) battle to control the narrative over their past and their future, can we change our fate if we become aware of it?
Selina (2020)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2021
Director: Greta Benkelmann
Country: Germany
Duration: 24:52
Synopsis: Selina wants to get away from her broken circumstances. Her boyfriend Nico takes her on a joyride that ends prematurely. The abyss of their young love is unearthed. When Selina meets Katharina, she increasingly recognizes Katharina’s pain as her own and Selina must ask herself: What does love have to endure?
