Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts September 2022
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts September 2022 – DAY 1
Bead Brothers (2022)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Aykut Temel
Country: Turkey
Duration: 24:01
Synopsis: Bekir (11) and his brother Ahmet (7), who were born in a world where violence is normalized and poverty and injustice begin, are two brothers who do not get along very well with each other. Ahmet lives with the dream of his father’s promise of a bicycle to him. However, he soon comes face to face with the fact that this promise will never be kept. Because in addition to the insufficient economic situation of the family, the Father; He is a gambling addict, unemployed, powerless and aggressive man. The father even takes away the money that your mother makes by cleaning the stairs. Bekir encounters a job opportunity one day when his brother Ahmet is about to give up on his bicycle dream. Bekir thinks that thanks to this new job opportunity, he can realize his brother’s dream of cycling by secretly saving money from his father.
Where our home: Natalia Ryzhova (2022)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Dmitry Kvashnin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 10:29
Synopsis: Story of adaptive crossfit athlete Natalia Ryzhova, know for her incredible power skills. She is first Russian adaptive athlete representative in World championship. She also happy mother and singer, and coaches people with disabilities around the world.
How Should One Wait For GODOT (2021)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Arshia Zeinali
Country: Iran
Duration: 28:04
Synopsis: “How Should One Wait for Godot” is an adaptation of Samuel Becket’s two plays, Waiting for Godot and EndGame. Does waiting for Godot help us reach the destination? Perhaps we did not know how to wait the proper way!
Stop. Look. Go. (2022)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Sneha Dasng
Country: India
Duration: 05:34
Synopsis: A man contemplates his entire life to understand how everything shaped him up to be where he is now.
Mergen (2021)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Raiymbek Alzhanov
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 26:22
Synopsis: On the strife-torn Central Asian steppe, the boy Mergen must defend his family in the place of his absent father. He will do so with courage, cunning, and above all, a mystical gift from his grandmother. An exciting historical thriller enriched with ancient magic.
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts – September 2022 – DAY 2
Dirty Art Hairdressing (2021)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Kirill Sarychev
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 25:48
Synopsis: An art group of hairdressers from St. Petersburg explains how the hair can express emotional state of the human soul. Experimenting with shapes, ideas and materials, crazy craftsmen create shocking things that are completely uncommon for the beauty industry. Is the hair a wealth or an atavism, your personal home or means communication, an art or some kind of game. Is it place on the head or in a trash bin? Crazy hairdressers argue about it.
Muncher (2020)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Navid Solati
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran
Duration: 18:39
Synopsis: He’ll increase the number of hunters tonight. They guess it’s a boar. What can a boar be doing in the heart of Tehran?
Au79 (2022)
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Rafael Hovhannisyan
Country: Armenia
Duration: 06:14
Synopsis: Valery is a retiree working as a night watchman in a newly built building. He inherited gold from his grandfather of blessed memory, which neither his daughter nor his son nor even his wife saw except him. After Armine’s death, Valery had to take her gold from home, keep it in a deserted place away from Emma’s and Ashot’s eyes. On that horrible day, he had no idea what could happen to him, that the history what had happened to his grandfather: the elder Valery could repeat.
Days of Ignorance (2021)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Abolfazl Tajik
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Ali-Mohammad, an 84-year old man, was the last survivor of the rural felt-crafters in Neyshabur region. The film depicts his life and work.
Usted dirá (I’m listening) (2021)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Ignacio Rodó
Country: Spain
Duration: 01:00
Synopsis: Some therapies take years. Some take a minute.
Eloise Lou (2021)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Marc Baradat
Country: France
Duration: 23:10
Synopsis: Christophe often parks by the house of his 16 years old daughter, who doesn’t know him. That day, Eloise storms out of the house. She sees Christophe, walks towards him, and asks him to give her a ride. In the car, she later tells him that she’s heading to her real father’s, whose existence she just learnt about…
Screening Programme – Moscow Shorts – September 2022 – DAY 3
SKAZ: Sirin’s Song (2022)
BEST ANIMATION AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Matt Lashko
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 14:29
Synopsis: A hermit finds a village girl lost in the woods. On their way home through sacred places they encounter a mysterious force, threatening the existence of all life in the Forest.
Contagion (2020)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: MEYSAM MORADI
Country: Iran
Duration: 13:14
Synopsis: I have fallen into the trap of a predetermined and purposeful life. In a time and place not far away or near. Maybe right now.
Turn Over (2022)
BEST STUDENT AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: TING TU
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 11:00
Synopsis: A poor homeless man knows there is a lot of food in an art gallery. He sneaks into the art gallery because he is hungry. He eats a lot of cake and then falls asleep in this warm gallery by accident. He lies flat on the floor. He is considered as a performance art by rich people. When the homeless man wakes up, people clap and shake his hand. He knows what has happened through those people’s actions. He knows it would be a life-changing moment. At this moment, he decides to pretend to be an artist. It presents a comedic allegory about modern art and a trenchant satire of the disparity between the rich and the poor. It is a comic allegory of modern art and a sharp satire of capitalist class differences.
My own colors (2021)
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – APRIL 2022
Director: Brenda Elizabeth Garcia Lopez
Country: Mexico
Duration: 14:27
Synopsis: Lalo a 14 year old boy, is forced to leave his house home in which he lived for more than twelve years due to Covid 19 pandemic; He will need to face his new reality. He is more than welcome at his aunt Mayela ́s house, but he will live with twelve more people; in a reality in which their parents are gone, they must leave school and begin to work.
Fluoxetine (2022)
BEST NARRATIVE AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Mohammad Masoud Nakhostin, Ali Narimani
Country: Iran
Duration: 12:45
Synopsis: Roya, a young girl, is preparing for a two-person dinner party. It reminds her of another party in teenage years which affected her life. An incident in the first, causes unexpected happening in the second one.
Three blades (2019)
BEST FILM AWARD @ MOSCOW SHORTS – JUNE 2022
Director: Matthieu MAUNIER-ROSSI
Country: France
Duration: 29:21
Synopsis: Haiti, nowadays. One day in the life of a family of three : three men, alone with their dreams and frustrations. Three generations under the burning sun. A day like every other day… And between them, everywhere, in every hand, there are blades : machetes. So when the night eventually comes…
