{"id":3799,"date":"2020-03-14T20:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moscowshorts.com\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2020-03-14T20:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:58:46","slug":"moscow-shorts-february-2020-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moscowshorts.com\/ru\/moscow-shorts-february-2020-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSCOW SHORTS \u2013 FEBRUARY 2020 AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BEST FILM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Akam (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Hossein Mirzamohammadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 16:07\n\nSynopsis: Akam is a 10 years old Kurdish boy, who\nlives in a village far from city. On a day of his sister\u2019s wdding , he is told\nby his father to go beyond the village to bring him some bricks to fix the main\npool in village for the wedding ceremony. So, Akam leaves the village and, when\nhe gets back, he faces a disaster. He finds everyone dead exept his mother, who\nis deaf and, doesn\u2019t have any idea of what happened when Akam was gone.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST DIRECTOR<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Awake (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Matan Rochlitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 16:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Awake is a short film by Shift.ms\nthat explores the interplay between Multiple Sclerosis, sleep and mental\nhealth. It is an experimental documentary film that unfolds over one night.\nVoices from real late-night phone calls are woven together to reflect on life\nand death from the unique perspective of those experiencing both insomnia and a\nneurological disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST SCREENPLAY<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fairyocious (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Fabien Ara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: SIMON : \u201dI want to be a girl,\nmommy.\u201d Alma freezes. She doesn\u2019t know how to react: from now on, her\n8-year-old son wants to dress up like a fairy to go to school. She asks for\nhelp from her neighbors. Soon the whole building is debating on Simon\u2019s choice\nfor gender orientation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Awake (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Matan Rochlitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 16:25\n\nSynopsis: Awake is a short film by Shift.ms that\nexplores the interplay between Multiple Sclerosis, sleep and mental health. It\nis an experimental documentary film that unfolds over one night. Voices from\nreal late-night phone calls are woven together to reflect on life and death\nfrom the unique perspective of those experiencing both insomnia and a\nneurological disease.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fairyocious (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Fabien Ara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: SIMON : \u201dI want to be a girl,\nmommy.\u201d Alma freezes. She doesn\u2019t know how to react: from now on, her\n8-year-old son wants to dress up like a fairy to go to school. She asks for\nhelp from her neighbors. Soon the whole building is debating on Simon\u2019s choice\nfor gender orientation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WORK SAMPLE (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director:\nGarry Savenkov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country:\nGermany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:\n09:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis:\nMiddle Ages:Hans comes to an job interview for executioners. After a short\nconversation, he has to prove himself and \ndemonstrate a sample of work!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bet on Yourself (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director:\nHarvey Eaton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country:\nUnited Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:\n20:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis:\nJohn Reeve, an 80 year old entrepreneur who started his life in war-torn\nEngland, now lives in the Caribbean as a cruise ship excursion mogul.   John owned an island-themed nightclub in the\ncentre of Coventry, hosting crooners like Dusty Springfield, Liberace and Tom\nJones. He intrepidly sailed across the Atlantic with no experience and no motor,\nhas crashed at least three airplanes and two boats, lived with Pygmy Indians,\nhad his skull caved in with a 4ft iron pipe, escaped from a Grenadian\nrevolution, and entered the ’88 Winter Olympics as the US Virgin Islands\nbobsled team (yes, the same year as the Jamaicans).   Nothing in life has ever stopped John and he\nis an inspiration for everyone to go out, make mistakes and make a mark on the\nworld.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Music Box (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director:\nJoe Chang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country:\nCanada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:\n11:29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis:\nThe Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political campaign in China\nlaunched and led by Mao Zedong from 1966 to 1976. Nearly ten million people,\nincluding outstanding scientists, artists, intellectuals and ordinary people,\ndied during these “Ten Years of Turnmoil” or “Ten Years of\nHolocaust.”  This animated short\nfilm is based on a real story and sets in China during the Cultural Revolution\nin 1967, It is about a young boy Liang Liang, whose family is suddenly taken to\nthe countryside by Red Guards. He is able to grab the only thing he treasures\nwhich is a western style music box, and is careful not to expose it to the red\nguards since it was linked to western culture.  \nThe film mirrors tragedies that befall children and families who are\nforced to leave their homes, due to war, colonization and political campaigns –\nunfortunately a situation which is all too common today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fag-end (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director:\nAllana Chumachenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country:\nRussian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:\n08:55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A\nyoung architect, struggling with disturbing dreams, performs a routine ritual,\nappearing every day at work, developing a project for a large company. Every\nday, over and over again, he begins to notice that the features of his own\nface, his voice, his laughter, the lines that his hand draws itself sometimes\nout of his control. All this reminds him of some other person, a person who is\nfamiliar to him from the childhood, but whom he has never met.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BEST MUSIC VIDEO<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lucky Chops – Traveler (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director:\nRaman Djafari, Daniel Almagor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country:\nGermany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:\n03:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis:\nThe music video for \u201cTraveler\u201d starts in a small forgotten village, a place\nthat feels like it was left in the attic. It\u2019s a place in stasis, where it\u2019s\nhot and moist, so that the cloths stick to the body. Everything and everyone is\nwaiting, staring, sinking into the ground. And then there\u2019s a march, a start to\nan unknown adventure, a daring call by an unheard chant. Both are truths of a\nshivering dream. Where do they go, the ones that leave? What happens to the\nones that stay? For now there\u2019s only the beautiful uncertainty of a choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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