{"id":749,"date":"2018-11-15T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moscowshorts.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2018-11-15T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:45:49","slug":"moscow-shorts-october-2018-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moscowshorts.com\/ru\/moscow-shorts-october-2018-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSCOW SHORTS \u2013 OCTOBER 2018 AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moscowshorts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Poster-Winners-MS-October-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3477\" height=\"2480\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST FILM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Halves<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Anastasia Melia Eleftheriou<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Greece<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 16:13<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: A woman finishes a wooden boat in her workshop and then takes it to a beach. But she&#8217;s afraid to take the boat out on the sea. Watching the tide go away without her, she leaves the beach and abandons the boat, letting it deteriorate in a boat cemetery among other shipwrecks that she or other people have built. Back in her cabin, she starts with the construction of another boat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST DIRECTOR<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Rabbit<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Lana Vlady<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Italy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 15:00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: Young sprinter Maria has to face the greatest race of her life in order to reunite with her best friend and find a long lost connection to her mother.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST SCREENPLAY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hide and seek<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Venera Kairzhanova<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Kazakhstan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 28:30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: Two little girls\u2019 light childhood goes dark every time it contacts with the world of adults. Can they hide in the sunny world or the clouds of the stark realities of life will find them?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Halves<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Anastasia Melia Eleftheriou<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cinematographer: Beata Rakoczy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Greece<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 16:13<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: A woman finishes a wooden boat in her workshop and then takes it to a beach. But she&#8217;s afraid to take the boat out on the sea. Watching the tide go away without her, she leaves the beach and abandons the boat, letting it deteriorate in a boat cemetery among other shipwrecks that she or other people have built. Back in her cabin, she starts with the construction of another boat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Two&#8217;s Company<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Svend Colding<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Denmark<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 09:57<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: A couple takes a bath together. It just doesn&#8217;t turn out to be as pleasant as they were hoping for&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Valle de Goni<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Emilia Buchbinder<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Argentina<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 09:49<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: In a town where animal sues are usual, a goat is put on trial for ruining Christmas Mass.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nobody Dies Here<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Simon Panay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: France<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 23:21<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daisy<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Yu Yu<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Taiwan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 09:42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Synopsis: Daisy is a young girl who is being cared by Ben, a caring robot during wartime. After a bomb attack, Daisy vanishes. 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The only way out is for Merch to end it all, to rid himself of the pain of real world &#8211; and to embrace the nirvana of the silicon. The Internet man is a comment on addiction to the internet and virality, and the terrifying impact it&#8217;s having on our mental health.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEST MUSIC VIDEO<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mgzavrebi \u2013 Promise<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Director: Ivan Sosnin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Duration: 04:59<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">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. 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