Film for Carlos
Renato Borrayo Serrano
What’s the worst thing that could happen to a jubilant young father? A visit from the in-laws. Sharp tongues, skilfully edited.
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Film for Carlos
Documentary Film
Russia
2017
31 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Renato Borrayo Serrano, Marina Razbezhkina
Director
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Cinematographer
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Editor
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Script
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Sound
Renato Borrayo Serrano
What’s the worst thing that could happen to a jubilant young father? A visit from the in-laws. What’s worse, they are citizens of Mother Russia, while the filmmaker father’s native language is Spanish, which means that the baby isn’t named Alyosha but, exactly, Carlos. It’s for him, “Carlushka”, that he wanted to record this hilarious and painful new family constellation unfolding between national chauvinism and loving, well-worn marital arguments, the director says. Sharp tongues, skilfully edited.
Barbara Wurm
Honorary Mention in the International Competition Short Documentary and Animated Film
Barbara Wurm
Honorary Mention in the International Competition Short Documentary and Animated Film
Holy God
Vladlena Sandu
The Sandu family got three kilos of rice from the state as compensation for their bombed house in Grosny.
Holy God
Documentary Film
Russia
2016
25 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Aleksey Uchitel, Kira Saksaganskaya
Director
Vladlena Sandu
Cinematographer
Vladlena Sandu
Editor
Vladlena Sandu
Script
Vladlena Sandu
Sound
Dmitriy Boyarintsev
The Sandu family got three kilos of rice from the state as compensation for their bombed house in Grosny. After that not much was left of the lives of three women – grandmother, mother, daughter. Vladlena Sandu tells a thoughtful and dignified tale of physical and psychological trauma and the normal career of a refugee, including dog food, “trauma” certificate, homelessness and intensive care. Putin’s thanks on New Year’s Day go to the terrorism-fighting home country. Words fail them. Silence. Turmoil. Bewilderment.
Barbara Wurm
Barbara Wurm
Mitya’s Love
Svetlana Filippova
A romance in Arkhangelsk, based on a story by Boris Shergin. The animated time machine swirls together the new and the old, avant-garde and folk art – in the dialect of the White Sea.
Mitya’s Love
Animated Film
Russia
2018
14 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Nikolay Makovskiy
Director
Svetlana Filippova
Cinematographer
Sara Magambetova
Editor
Svetlana Filippova
Animation
Stepan Biryukov, Natalya Markina
Script
Svetlana Filippova
Sound
Artem Fadeyev
A romance in Arkhangelsk, based on a story by Boris Shergin, inspired by the Russian avant-garde and naïf folk art. This animated time machine delves deep into the past, dissolves perspectives and: makes everything new again. Cats are there, but not the right woman. Love is there, but must be searched. Soviet reality is woven in – drinkers, peasants and cattle – as well as a rich soundtrack in which a dreamy fairytale Russian has the dialect of the White Sea.
Saskia Walker
Saskia Walker
Puberty
Elena Kondrateva
Mother of four, professional experience, divorced. What else is yet to come? A woman in Moscow in the midst of the “age of transition” chooses her own path to happiness.
Puberty
Documentary Film
Russia
2019
28 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Elena Kondrateva
Director
Elena Kondrateva
Cinematographer
Elena Kondrateva
Editor
Liza Kozlova, Elena Kondrateva
Sound
Yurij Geddert
A mother of four children puzzles about love. One thing is clear: She needs sex. She also knows: So many allegedly happy couples hold on to their mutual error. It’s more honest to get a divorce. The Russian original title means “age of transition”. And that can hit you in every phase of life. The teenagers discuss with their mother what strategies can be used to face it. The experienced midwife, in all frankness, chooses her own path to happiness.
Saskia Walker
Awarded with a Golden Dove in the International Competition Short Documentary Film.
Saskia Walker
Awarded with a Golden Dove in the International Competition Short Documentary Film.
The Conversation
Anastasia Novikova
Somewhere in a lonely landscape, in a humble cabin, an old man sits at the window. A mobile phone is on the table, he’s waiting for a call. In the meantime he talks to himself, since his wife is far away, in hospital.
The Conversation
Documentary Film
Russia
2015
22 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Alexander Gutman
Director
Anastasia Novikova
Cinematographer
Pavel Skvortsov
Editor
Elena Gromova
Script
Anastasia Novikova
Sound
Elina Shtilman
The conversation is largely with himself. Somewhere in a lonely landscape, in a humble cabin, an old man sits at the window. A mobile phone is on the table, he’s waiting for a call. In the meantime he talks to himself, since his wife is far away, in hospital. A spider weaves its web on the ceiling, a water kettle simmers, time passes. A composition of exquisite moments of melancholy: a lament for the absent wife and at the same time an ode to being together.
Ralph Eue
Golden Dove for best short documentary in the International Competition Short Film 2015
Ralph Eue
Golden Dove for best short documentary in the International Competition Short Film 2015
