International Short Films
1) Ifigeneia: no more tears
Dir: George Georgakopoulos; 17.40 min; Greek with Eng subtitles; Greece; 2019
When Ifigeneia gets invited for lunch to her future husband's family home, she doesn’t go empty handed. Hoping to make a good impression, she brings along a little girl. However, when two mysterious investigators suddenly appear, things get quite complicated.
2) Collar
Dir : Katarina Ivanovich; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Olechka's husband controls Her in everything, they live according to his laws, lead an ascetic lifestyle. The girl feels that she is happily married. But everything changes when a naked neighbor breaks into their quiet and measured life.
3) Reflection
Dir : Elena Nodel; 8 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russis; 2020
Imagine that after the death of a loved one you got the opportunity to communicate with the deceased with the help of artificial intelligence technologies – to say the last ‘forgive me’ and ‘goodbye’, to hug him for the last time, to close gestalt ...
4) 51+
Dir: Daniyar Abirov;9.05 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019
It's not about love. A man falls in love with a young girl, but he is over 50 years old already.
5) Tradition
Dir : Zhanuzak Mamytov; 13.09 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019
Circumcision in Kyrgyz culture is not just a tradition, but for kyrgyz male is an essential part of his life. Main character without attention of his parents mocked by his peers. How will he find solution of this situation?
6) Scenes by the Sea
Dir: Oksana Degtyareva; 20.04 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019
Nina spends her time at her parents’ busy with the preparation for her younger sister’s wedding. Unexpectedly for her, her husband Nikita comes there too. Nina and Nikita have been going through a family relationships crisis. In order not to spoil the event, they try to pretend that everything is OK between them.
7) Thank you Coach
Dir : Nikita Tarasov; 9 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
An experienced coach Alexandra gives advices to housewife Sonya who wants to learn how to manipulate her husband. But Sonya’s husband also has his own coach.
8) Please Have a Seat
Dir: Eteri Nioradze ; 11.36 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Nadia is a nail artist tries to create around her a "perfect" world of beauty and neatness, but one day a new client comes to her and accidentally destroys everything around.
9) BANANA
Dir : Stepan Azarian; 14.31 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Sasha works as a promoter in a banana costume at a fruit and vegetable shop. At the one moment his usual life collapses - threats from the collector, deprivation of parental rights, dismissal from work - this is just the beginning.
10) THE WAY HOME
Dir: Elena Khimyalyaynen; 16:15 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
It is a reflection film about a human life lost in a series of monotonous everyday life. The character has only one way to hear themselves in this nonsense. Perhaps it is from this step that a human being is commencing, and life becomes meaningful.
11) LIPSTICK
Dir : Svetlana Yashina; 01:19 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A woman takes a break from a party and hides in the bathroom only to find a frightening reflection in the mirror. Having overcome the first surge of fear, she finds an unexpected solution to the problem.
12) Triplet
Dir: Vadim Zaytsev; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Three brothers travel to their ancestral home to visit their elderly mother who was dying. Brothers find adoption certificate of a boy, but the name and date of birth are impossible to read, due to it being burned. In order to find the truth and discover which one of them was adopted, they compare their childhood memories…
13) BALI-TO-FUN
Dir : Jeanne Desire; 20:06 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Indonesia, Russia; 2020
Anya comes to Bali for a women's workshop where she has to practice her seduction skills, and bring a man to the final day of the workshop to get a certificate.
14) Tisbea
Dir : Israel Ahumada; 11 min.; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Mexico; 2020
The process of a young actress who, based on her own emotional experience, gives life to the character of Tisbea in the play The Trickster of Seville by Tirso de Molina. Tisbea is a transdisciplinary experiment that combines theater, sound art and cinematography.
15) The Return
Dir: Chach Elena Andreevna; 07:36 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2018
Small household troubles reinforce the anxious foreboding of a young woman in the absence of her husband, whom she somehow can not reach.
16) The Axe
Dir : Lanna (Svetlana) Rybakova; 14.55 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Sergei sells knife sharpeners in the Moscow metro and notices schoolgirl Katya. A strong attraction leads him to follow the little girl and carry her into the entrance.
17) The Swings
Dir : Anastasiia Ostapenko; 13 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Roma is 6 years old. His parents are about to divorce. After being asked if he want to stay with mom or dad, Roma becomes silent. His inner feelings that very much remind of swings, Roma expresses in his drawings.
18) The Power of Childhood
Dir : Lolita Naranovich; 13 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
It is Russian Revolution of 1905. A crowd that has rebelled against the government is going to execute an officer. His son runs up to him and hugs him saving the officer’s life. What the child does returns the sense of compassion both to the crowd and the officer.
19) The Last Illusion
Dir: Vladimir Feklneko; 15.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Russia. 1910 year. Once-famous magician Arseny Vilsky lost his popularity and bears t miserable existence of a wandering circus artist. Gathering the remaining strengths, he prepares to his last performance...
20) Performance
Dir : Nina Moiseeva,; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
An artist fakes suicide during a performance in order to learn what it’s like to be dead.
21) I want to go home
Dir: Tatyana Lyalina; 14.05 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
He wanted to go home so badly that he just got up out of his grave and went. But it turns out that his home was now occupied.
22) Tooth
Dir: Siman Lyashenko; 7.58 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A young father preparing for the public protest is distracted by his six-year-old son who has loose tooth. While the father is persuading his son to pull it out, the police come up to their front door.
23) Talent
Dir: Oleg Ageychev; 9.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A young actor decided to play grief for real...at the real funeral...
24) Tsoy is Dead
Dir: Alexander Solovyov; 5.20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Nine-year-old Kim lives in North Korea. Surrounded by a totalitarian regime every day is the same - until the moment when Viktor Tsoy’s rock concert interferes with the usual TV Signal. Kim is shocked by what he sees and becomes obsessed by the rock star, trying to move and dance like him. Kim is not the same person anymore, but will his new personality be accepted by his surroundings?
25) Under the Stork’s Nest
Dir : Ani Oganesyan; 20 min; Armenian with Eng subtitles; Armenia; 2020
The film takes place in a small Armenian village. The main character Aaron during a football game unsuccessfully kicks the ball right into the tandoor. The loss is not great, but the ball is not his but his friend Grieg’s. Moreover, it was brought from the World Cup. Now Aaron must return the same ball to him.
26) Freedom of Choice
Dir : Alexey Medvedev; 21 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A fatal accident - hostage-taking in a faraway country - brings together an important diplomat, his unfaithful wife and her lover. To be saved, they need to act together, but is it possible when hatred is stronger than the desire to live, a sense of duty is more important than reputation, and betrayal is higher than love?
27)Wantok
Dir : Dmitrii Komarov; 7 min; Tok Pisin with Eng subtitles; Papua New Guinea
The boy forced to run away from his home village of Papua New Guinean remote province overtaken by conflict between neighboring tribes into the country capital. The path is dangerous but he meets a militiaman on his way, who seems volunteering to assist in reaching of his destination.
28) Hands and Wings
Dir : Sungbin BYUN; 15 min; Korean with Eng subtitles; South Korea; 2019
An adolescent boy ‘Woo-Sung’ is unable to move his hands freely due to physical disabilities. So he can’t solve his sexual desire alone. His mother tries to help him, but one day he refuses mother’s help.
29)Forget the Palms
Dir : Tim Berezin; 6:05 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A film about the bard fighting squad who battled new technologies.
30) Letters
Dir: Elena Kuzhel; 14.01 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
The main character is a participant in the first Chechen war. He reads a story dedicated to his comrade in arms. A vision comes to the hero during the reading of each letter. Now war, death, love take on peculiar images. After he finishes reading, he leaves the room and finds himself in a cemetery with unmarked graves. Next to him is a Chechen with a severed ear. Men have a short dialogue before they disappear.
31) Knitting Club for Men over 40
Dir : Egor Gavrilin; 22.06 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
There’s a new member in the mysterious knitting club for mature men. On his first day he sees that there’s someone who wants to seize power over the club. He decides to bring back justice. The bad guy has already mastered the skill of knitting but our hero has resolve and best intentions. But… are they that good after all?
32)The World’s Last House
Dir : Amir Gholami; 16.19 min; Kurdish with Eng subtitles; Iran; 2019
An old man, answering people’s letters and solving their problems at a far-off cottage for a long time, is facing the weirdest challenge of his life; an intrusive guest with three bullets in his gun...
33)The Prophetess
Dir : Marco Joubert; 2.20 min; French with Eng subtitles; Canada; 2020
Drawing from the observations, experiences and thoughts gathered throughout her life, the prophetess, in a surge of hope and altruism, shares her conception of a world which should have been, could or will be: a manifesto, for a fictitious or latent generation. The text is freely inspired by a Francis Ponge poem, The Law and the Prophets (1930), reinterpreted and rewritten to better anchor it to the contemporary context as well as to my own ideals.
35) Jack and Chan
Dir : Alexey Petrashevich; 15 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
The recently appointed Mayor of the provincial town makes casual preparations for impending inspection by an image committee, all the while enjoying his new state of life and the recently purchased new imported car with money intended for acquire an international celebrity. Right before the committee’s arrival, the Mayor is informed that a registered international celebrity in his town is a crucial requirement, which won’t be possible to ignore.
36) Nap Time
Dir: Elina Smirnova; 11 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A young woman finds out that she is pregnant. Doctors recommend her to terminate the pregnancy because her mother has an inherited mental illness. The protagonist doesn’t know what to choose.
37) Talent
Dir : Oleg Ageychev; 9.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A young actor decided to play grief for real...at the real funeral...
38) Alaska, Lost Face
Dir : Alexey Matveev; 19.59 min; Russian with Eng subtitle; Russia; 2020
Subyenkov, a fur miner, has risen through the ranks, starting as an idealist and ending up as a criminal thrown by fate into the lands of Alaska. And now he sits tied up in natives' captivity. And next to him, a "Big Ivan" is twisting with pain, a man he thought was a man without nerves. Subyenkov finds a way out for himself, telling the Indian leader about a miraculous remedy that will simply prevent him from dying. The experience of trading with the Indians helps him get the chief into his game. So what's he up to?
39) When We Open the Gate of the Sky
Dir : Pavel Bykovchenk; 6.35 min; Kirghiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan; 2019
An inquisitive boy asks his grandfather about a man whose monument he diligently cares for. Who is this man?
Dir : Radik Kudoyarov; 12.57 min; German, English; Kazakhstan, Germany, Russia, USA, UK, France; 2020
Father gives his son an unusual gift for his 10th birthday. It will change the boy's life forever.
