International Short Fiction
Jadzia
Dir: KK Araujo, Ariane Porto, 19:58 min; German/Portuguese with English subtitles; 2020; Brazil; Short Fiction
Poetic narrative of Jadzia's look at her prison in the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbruck. The film is sensitive throughout an attempt to reconstruct its struggle for life in a humane and welcoming way.
Fall Of The Ibis King
Dir: Mikai Geronimo, Josh O'Caoimh; 9:42 min; English; 2021; Ireland; Animation/Experimental
The antagonist of a dark opera becomes increasingly unsettled following the unlikely return of the former lead actor.
This Is Not A War
Dir: Irina Valts, Evgeniya Lazarenkova; 11:58 min; Russian with English subtitles; 2021; Russia; Short Fiction
How different the expression of the sympathies of teenagers and children can be. During the preparation of the holiday "Victory Day" the true relationship between kids is being revealed.
Under The Dark Clouds
Dir: Kangmin Lim; 3.27 min; Silent; 2020; USA; Animation/Experimental
Under the Dark Clouds is a 2D mixed-media fantasy animation about visiting a dream world. It uses digitally hand-drawn character animation with watercolor stop-motion and crayon drawings as a background. This film addresses the idea of self-acceptance, and how dreams reflect our unconsciousness.
Inga
Director- Olga Gagarina; 14 minutes 7 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2022
Inga, who had two loans and a young husband, really needs a job as a restaurant manager. Her natural shyness, as well as the negative attitude of the restaurant owner, who considers all women to be “chicks”, prevent her from showing her true self and talent in the interview. But then the Waiter brings her an envelope with the mysterious title “The Egyptian Story”.
Naida
Director- Yuri Sholin; 20 minutes; Russian with English subtitles; 2021
The only friend of the stern, scorched by the war in Afghanistan, guard Sergei who has lost the meaning of life after the loss of his family, is the dog Naida. But he will soon face a difficult choice.
Wild Roses of the Barksoon Gorg
Director- Pavel Bykovchenko; 10 minutes 17 seconds; No dialogue; 2021
A young horseman, driving along the mountain paths, draws his attention to a strange scarf lying in the water. He does not even suspect how his fate will turn out in the future, for he is now unwillingly bound by this scarf.
Before We Leave
Director- Natalia Gurkina; 9 minutes 24 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2021
A story about the memory of the dead, about life after death and about love after leaving forever. The family packs for the moving. Mother is nostalgic sorting stuff out, the son is indifferent as he throws his stuff into a bag, the father tries to sneak out to meet his friends. Only the youngest daughter cannot find her deal, but she is soon to face the reality that she really lives in.
Like in the movies
Director- Maria Ivanova; 13 minutes 4 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2021
After finding several dead bodies in a hotel room, the maid behaves very strangely. She photographs the details of the murders and sends them to someone, signing each one with the name of a famous movie. All the characters are from completely different social classes and clearly demonstrate a person’s indifference to each other because of society’s assessment of their importance. But the main question is who will eventually get the right to live.
Friend
Director- Andrey Svetlov; 20 minutes 30 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2021
A film about two warring school students; one of them dreams of a new smartphone, the other of a simple friendship. By chance, they find themselves in a common predicament from which they will have to get out. It’s a rich, day-long story spiced with chases, childish adventurism, and light humour.
A story about the memory of the dead, about life after death and about love after leaving forever. The family packs for the moving. Mother is nostalgic sorting stuff out, the son is indifferent as he throws his stuff into a bag, the father tries to sneak out to meet his friends. Only the youngest daughter cannot find her deal, but she is soon to face the reality that she really lives in.
Like in the movies
Director- Maria Ivanova; 13 minutes 4 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2021
After finding several dead bodies in a hotel room, the maid behaves very strangely. She photographs the details of the murders and sends them to someone, signing each one with the name of a famous movie. All the characters are from completely different social classes and clearly demonstrate a person’s indifference to each other because of society’s assessment of their importance. But the main question is who will eventually get the right to live.
Friend
Director- Andrey Svetlov; 20 minutes 30 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2021
A film about two warring school students; one of them dreams of a new smartphone, the other of a simple friendship. By chance, they find themselves in a common predicament from which they will have to get out. It’s a rich, day-long story spiced with chases, childish adventurism, and light humour.
Shadows of your childhood
Director- Mikhail Gorobchuk; 21 minutes 23 seconds; Russian with English subtitles; 2020
Our house becomes shrouded in the silence of night. It grows long shadows accentuated by the random sparks of the kerosene lamp. For little Stesha, the darkness becomes a way into another world that is both frightening and fascinating. Fragments of elusive memories, voices and shimmers of light- these are the flickering sensations of childhood, and they stay with us forever.
Saving Kolobok
Director- Zhanna Shmakova; 10 minutes 1 second; Russian with English subtitles; 2022
The theatre director I.P. Kolobkov is accused of staging a protest performance in a children's theater. Major Zaytsev tries to detain Kolobkov during the performance. The major's son is in the audience, therefore, to go on stage and catch Kolobok, he and other police officers are forced to put on bunny masks. Kolobok makes the police sing and dance until his girlfriend Lisa appears on the stage and turns out to be the initiator of the allegations.
Forget me not
Director- Lea Gygli; 13 minutes 3 seconds; Swiss German with English subtitles; 2021
Yuna is looking for her friend Moana and finds answers to her questions. Between memories and longing, Yuna experiences an insight through which she can find peace with her loss.
Copi
Director- Andre Gevaerd; 18 minutes 47 seconds; Portuguese, Spanish with English subtitles; 2020
Renê, 35-year-old, is a Brazilian night hotel receptionist and complements his income with side jobs to pay for his 6-year-old son's pension. Copi, 41-year-old, is an amateur, Argentinian artist who makes her living out of Balneário Camboriú night life as a travestite. Their path intersects and…
Perm
Dir: Shekh al Mamun; 30.00mins; Korean with English subtitles; 2021; South Korea; SF
‘Nisha’, who comes from Bangladesh, lives in a rural village in Korea with her mother-in-law and her husband, Byeong-shik. She loves riding her bike to go study Hangeul and wants to become more independent. However, her mother-in-law hopes that Nisha will have a child soon and devote herself to the family. One day, during a jesa ceremony, the uncle keeps telling her that she has to become more Korean and pressures her to quickly have a baby.
Karl
Dir: Ilya Yakovlevich Noyabrev; 19:37 mins; Russian with English subtitles; 2021; Ukraine; SF
Karl greets the day in the library of his family castle. Having found the right page in the right book at the right time he gets up and heads for the bedchamber, wherein the queen of Egypt, Cleopatra is reclining on the bed. Sun-colored clothes successfully highlight the bronze color of her skin, sweet bliss spread across her body, indicating her readiness to heed Karl. A spoken word artist at the Regional Philharmonic, he wakes up on a grey autumn morning, trying to grasp moments of a magical dream.
DOCTOR
Dir: Alexander Solovyov;05:38 mins; Russian with English subtitles;2021; Russian Federation; SF
A film about a doctor who was fighting against coronavirus but got infected himself. The main character is based on the memories of doctors and patients whose voices we hear in the background.
GREENHOUSE
Dir: Andrey Lukyanov; 11:52 mins; Russian with English subtitles; 2021; Russian Federation; SF
The scientist Vasily Sokolov raises his family from the dead, and along with them — resurrects all of his family’s old bickerings.
Barrio Frontera
Dir: Reed Purvis; 18:00 mins; Spanish with English subtitles; 2021; United States;SF;
A teenage girl from a poor rural village in northern Argentina moves to Buenos Aires to pursue a life with more opportunities and the hopes of helping her family back home. Sharing a small room in a large informal settlement with her older cousin's family, she must quickly adapt to this radically different urban environment.
Dir: Zhdan Tikhonov; 18:12 mins; Russian with English subtitles; 2021; Russian Federation; SF
Ivan Alekseevich, a high-ranking official, dies and finds himself in the house of his childhood, where he began his life and meets a strange character resembling an angel. Together they try to look at the life of the protagonist from a different angle and evaluate his actions.
MAVKA
Dir: Anastasia Ledkova; 15:00 mins; Russian with English subtitles; 2021; Russian Federation; SF
After the tragic loss of a mother, her son and husband are about to leave the hometown to start over. But their plans are disrupted when the son meets a mysterious girl by the riverside.
HOME
Dir: Yang Yang; 16:59 mins; Chinese with English subtitles; 2021; China; SF
In an ancient courtyard in China's western Henan province, a little girl named Xiao Witnessed her parents arguing and her father running away from home. Fueled by her hatred for her mother, Xiao deliberately causes trouble and becomes more rebellious until she meets Wang Hao, a painter. By a strange combination of circumstances, Xiao finds out her mother's secret: after her father leaves, she falls ill in hospital, but her mother chooses to accompany her father...... Later, Xiao also picks up a paintbrush and felt the happiness of home.
THE MERCENARY
Dir: Elena Vorobyova; 08:17 mins; Russian with English subtitles; 2021; Russian Federation; SF
Former soldier who became a mercenary in a distant African country at a foreign war, realizes that he went too far, and lost everything that was dear to him. But it is too late to change.
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