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WATER FROM LIGHT
Russia, 2024, 20’
A single man spends a night with a married woman at a resort. She leaves around morning, and he is left with a hair crab she has left behind and an unclear sense of new experience.
Director, writer: Pavel Korolko
Cinematography: Armel Kaas
Producer: Polina Ulyanets
Cast: Aleksander Korotkov, Natalia Voloshina, Aleksander Bocharov
Production: Pavel Korolko
A single man spends a night with a married woman at a resort. She leaves around morning, and he is left with a hair crab she has left behind and an unclear sense of new experience.
Director, writer: Pavel Korolko
Cinematography: Armel Kaas
Producer: Polina Ulyanets
Cast: Aleksander Korotkov, Natalia Voloshina, Aleksander Bocharov
Production: Pavel Korolko
WIZARD
Russia, 2024, 10’
During an unplanned journey, a young woman calls at an unusual café where she meets a strange man. Following him, she sees herself in the past.
Director, writer: Deva Abasheva
Cinematography: Elizaveta Zbritskaya
Producer: Deva Abasheva
Cast: Maria Matzel, Andrey Abashev, Daniil Roskin, Aksinya Sorokina, Kirill Antonov, Olga Novoseltseva, Maria Kholodovich, Timofey SorokinProduction: Deva Abashev
During an unplanned journey, a young woman calls at an unusual café where she meets a strange man. Following him, she sees herself in the past.
Director, writer: Deva Abasheva
Cinematography: Elizaveta Zbritskaya
Producer: Deva Abasheva
Cast: Maria Matzel, Andrey Abashev, Daniil Roskin, Aksinya Sorokina, Kirill Antonov, Olga Novoseltseva, Maria Kholodovich, Timofey SorokinProduction: Deva Abashev
DOG YEAR
Russia, 2024, 19’
Katya and her mother have an unusual relationship. The father left their family and it became a great challenge for them: Katya is a troubled adolescent stealing cigarettes and her mother is a desperate woman who barely talks to people. On New Year's eve, Katya decides to end her mother's suffering by making her spend time out of home.
Director, writer: Katya Maskatova
Cinematography: Maks Fedorov-Bogomolny
Producer: Ekaterina Kolchanova, Tatiana Shipanova
Cast: Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Dusya Trukhina
Production: VGIK training film studio, 2024
Awards: Best cast, Svyataya Anna, 2025
Katya and her mother have an unusual relationship. The father left their family and it became a great challenge for them: Katya is a troubled adolescent stealing cigarettes and her mother is a desperate woman who barely talks to people. On New Year's eve, Katya decides to end her mother's suffering by making her spend time out of home.
Director, writer: Katya Maskatova
Cinematography: Maks Fedorov-Bogomolny
Producer: Ekaterina Kolchanova, Tatiana Shipanova
Cast: Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Dusya Trukhina
Production: VGIK training film studio, 2024
Awards: Best cast, Svyataya Anna, 2025
ROSE GIRL
Russia, 2024, 16’
Having got through a rape, a convent novice tries to find God again.
Director, writer: Polina Kapantina
Cinematography: Evgenia Stvora
Producer: Polina Kapantina
Cast: Katya Esina, Naum Shvets, Lika Barchan, Yulia Rogachkova
Production: Polina Kapantina
Awards: Special jury prize of the Iskusstvo Kino magazine For Non-Violence, Koroche film festival, 2024
Having got through a rape, a convent novice tries to find God again.
Director, writer: Polina Kapantina
Cinematography: Evgenia Stvora
Producer: Polina Kapantina
Cast: Katya Esina, Naum Shvets, Lika Barchan, Yulia Rogachkova
Production: Polina Kapantina
Awards: Special jury prize of the Iskusstvo Kino magazine For Non-Violence, Koroche film festival, 2024
STAINED-GLASS HOUSE
Russia, 2024, 24’
Olya, her brother Igor and their cousin Vera with her husband Maksim come to a village for their granddad's funeral to take the fortune he left. Vera needs money badly and she is planning to find it whatever it takes. Well-off Olya and Igor loathe their cousin's behavior. The lost connection with their relatives and their granddad's strange house, in which a new mistress is setting her rules, will make the guys look at what is happening from a different side and see each other's real faces.
Director: Grigory Sazanov
Writer: Sofia Shamova, Grigory Sazanov
Cinematography: Ruslan Krupnov
Producer: Evgenia Firevich, Grigory Sazanov
Cast: Aleksandra Babaskina, Julia Volkova, Ilya Lykov, Anastasia Mishina, Ignat Elatomtsev, Irina Grishina
Production: Grigory Sazanov
Awards: award for the best film artist at VGIK-fest
Olya, her brother Igor and their cousin Vera with her husband Maksim come to a village for their granddad's funeral to take the fortune he left. Vera needs money badly and she is planning to find it whatever it takes. Well-off Olya and Igor loathe their cousin's behavior. The lost connection with their relatives and their granddad's strange house, in which a new mistress is setting her rules, will make the guys look at what is happening from a different side and see each other's real faces.
Director: Grigory Sazanov
Writer: Sofia Shamova, Grigory Sazanov
Cinematography: Ruslan Krupnov
Producer: Evgenia Firevich, Grigory Sazanov
Cast: Aleksandra Babaskina, Julia Volkova, Ilya Lykov, Anastasia Mishina, Ignat Elatomtsev, Irina Grishina
Production: Grigory Sazanov
Awards: award for the best film artist at VGIK-fest
UNCLE
Russia, 2025, 24’
For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in
Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…
Director, writer: Ivan Vetoshkin
Cinematography: Ivan Vetoshkin
Producer: Ivan Vetoshkin
Cast: Polina Abrashkina, Yuri Vershinin, Alexandra Kanchurina, Maria Yanchevskaya, Maria Kuzmina, Ekaterina Chermoshentseva, Kirill Chadov
Production: Ivan Vetoshkin
For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in
Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…
Director, writer: Ivan Vetoshkin
Cinematography: Ivan Vetoshkin
Producer: Ivan Vetoshkin
Cast: Polina Abrashkina, Yuri Vershinin, Alexandra Kanchurina, Maria Yanchevskaya, Maria Kuzmina, Ekaterina Chermoshentseva, Kirill Chadov
Production: Ivan Vetoshkin
IF I'LL BE WELL, IT WILL BE BECAUSE
Russia, 2024, 24’
Fro moves to her father after her fiancée has been conscripted into the army. Unable to find peace in her parents' home, the girl tries to let go and then to try and bring Fedya home whatever it takes.
Director, writer: Gau Khar
Cinematography: Miron Zubkov
Producer: Yerokho Elizaveta
Cast: Irina Shkabara, Valery Novikov, Arseniy Kaverzin, Maria Krotova, Yaroslav Guskov
Production: VGIK
Fro moves to her father after her fiancée has been conscripted into the army. Unable to find peace in her parents' home, the girl tries to let go and then to try and bring Fedya home whatever it takes.
Director, writer: Gau Khar
Cinematography: Miron Zubkov
Producer: Yerokho Elizaveta
Cast: Irina Shkabara, Valery Novikov, Arseniy Kaverzin, Maria Krotova, Yaroslav Guskov
Production: VGIK
WHO LET THE WILD DONKEY GO FREE?
Russia, 2025, 16’
Polina enjoys shooting videos with her phone. With a camera in hand she has the feeling that she is the sole master of reality. But today things are different. A crazy night gets the better of Polina, sweeping her away into the world of associations and images. Townsfolk turn into mythical characters, frightening and alluring at the same time.
Director, writer: Nikita Lokhmatov
Cinematography: Polina Kapantina
Cast: Polina Kapantina, Lev Burshtein, Nikolai Isaikin, Nikita Ladyzhnikov, Maxim Rumskiy, Timur MakhmudovProduction: Nikita Lokhmatov
Polina enjoys shooting videos with her phone. With a camera in hand she has the feeling that she is the sole master of reality. But today things are different. A crazy night gets the better of Polina, sweeping her away into the world of associations and images. Townsfolk turn into mythical characters, frightening and alluring at the same time.
Director, writer: Nikita Lokhmatov
Cinematography: Polina Kapantina
Cast: Polina Kapantina, Lev Burshtein, Nikolai Isaikin, Nikita Ladyzhnikov, Maxim Rumskiy, Timur MakhmudovProduction: Nikita Lokhmatov
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
Russia, 2024, 14’
Artem plays the accordion and lives in an ordinary city. His life is doomed to be boring and quiet. Since childhood he has been dreaming of leaving everything behind and rushing through to the new world. Dreaming of leaving everything behind and going to the other end of the country, he remembers his past, which prevents him from making this reckless move. Having seen an unknown girl, the young man realizes how hard it is to live in a locked world.
Director, writer: Masha Salyukova
Cinematography: Max Fedorov-Bogomolny
Producer: Vladislav Saveliev
Cast: Vladislav Medvedev, Anastasia Veselkina, Islam Ainetdinov
Production: VGIK
Awards: special prize of Koroche festival, 2024, the prize of the organizers, the International Short and Animated Film Festival Videnie XVII
Artem plays the accordion and lives in an ordinary city. His life is doomed to be boring and quiet. Since childhood he has been dreaming of leaving everything behind and rushing through to the new world. Dreaming of leaving everything behind and going to the other end of the country, he remembers his past, which prevents him from making this reckless move. Having seen an unknown girl, the young man realizes how hard it is to live in a locked world.
Director, writer: Masha Salyukova
Cinematography: Max Fedorov-Bogomolny
Producer: Vladislav Saveliev
Cast: Vladislav Medvedev, Anastasia Veselkina, Islam Ainetdinov
Production: VGIK
Awards: special prize of Koroche festival, 2024, the prize of the organizers, the International Short and Animated Film Festival Videnie XVII
NOTHING HAPPENED
Russia, 2023, 16’
Sandro arrives in the native Ossetia to her father's funeral and at once she gets involved in the fuss of funeral rituals. The heavy burden of unsaid words lies between her and her brother Geor: Sandro wants to leave this place forever.
Director, writer: Dana Arsagova
Cinematography: Anastasia Davydova
Producer: Amur Arsagov
Cast: Amina Agkatseva, Khetag Khinchagov, Leila Tebloeva
Production: Dana Arsagova
Sandro arrives in the native Ossetia to her father's funeral and at once she gets involved in the fuss of funeral rituals. The heavy burden of unsaid words lies between her and her brother Geor: Sandro wants to leave this place forever.
Director, writer: Dana Arsagova
Cinematography: Anastasia Davydova
Producer: Amur Arsagov
Cast: Amina Agkatseva, Khetag Khinchagov, Leila Tebloeva
Production: Dana Arsagova
THE CRIME
Russia, 2024, 30’
A story of Larisa, an actress of a provincial theater. Despite her talent, commitment to the work she loves and years of dedication to theater, Larisa never got a role longer than a couple of phrases. Will she be able to prove to the director, spectators and, first of all, to herself, that she deserves much more and what will she risk to achieve it?
Director, writer: Alexandra Vostrova
Cinematography: Nikita Parsegov
Producer: Alexandra Vostrova, Ilya Fedorov
Cast: Yana Esipovich, Evgeny Roshchin, Rufina Rotman, Elena Romanova-Dovgan, Andrey Babenko
Production: Alexandra Vostrova, VGIK
Awards: Best feature film - 1st prize and prize of the chair of the organizing committee, Svyataya Anna festival, 2025
A story of Larisa, an actress of a provincial theater. Despite her talent, commitment to the work she loves and years of dedication to theater, Larisa never got a role longer than a couple of phrases. Will she be able to prove to the director, spectators and, first of all, to herself, that she deserves much more and what will she risk to achieve it?
Director, writer: Alexandra Vostrova
Cinematography: Nikita Parsegov
Producer: Alexandra Vostrova, Ilya Fedorov
Cast: Yana Esipovich, Evgeny Roshchin, Rufina Rotman, Elena Romanova-Dovgan, Andrey Babenko
Production: Alexandra Vostrova, VGIK
Awards: Best feature film - 1st prize and prize of the chair of the organizing committee, Svyataya Anna festival, 2025
MAY THERE ALWAYS BE ME
Russia, 2024, 10’
A girl meets a small lost girl in the forest and helps her find her way home, but it turns out that the former girl was the one who has got lost.
Director, writer: Arina Lebedeva
Cinematography: Olesya Androsyuk
Producer: Arina Lebedeva, Maria Kovaleva
Cast: Ananke Areiro, Daria Bulaeva
Awards: Jury diploma For Concise and Expressive Visual Solution, Svyataya Anna festival, 2025
A girl meets a small lost girl in the forest and helps her find her way home, but it turns out that the former girl was the one who has got lost.
Director, writer: Arina Lebedeva
Cinematography: Olesya Androsyuk
Producer: Arina Lebedeva, Maria Kovaleva
Cast: Ananke Areiro, Daria Bulaeva
Awards: Jury diploma For Concise and Expressive Visual Solution, Svyataya Anna festival, 2025
TANGO
Russia, 2025, 23’
Architect Oleg comes to a provincial town on business where he meets a girl Tania. It’s the case of love at first sight and there seems that a long a happy life awaits them…
Director, writer: Fedor Malyshev
Cinematography: Artem Gordeichik
Producers: Anna Dobronravova, Fedor Dobronravov, Viktor Dobronravov, Ivan Dobronravov, Evgenia Shumilova
Production: Do it bro production
Architect Oleg comes to a provincial town on business where he meets a girl Tania. It’s the case of love at first sight and there seems that a long a happy life awaits them…
Director, writer: Fedor Malyshev
Cinematography: Artem Gordeichik
Producers: Anna Dobronravova, Fedor Dobronravov, Viktor Dobronravov, Ivan Dobronravov, Evgenia Shumilova
Production: Do it bro production
ENAY
Russia, 2025, 20’
The boy's life in the kids' summer camp has gone wrong from the very start. First, a gang of Indians beat him up, then a girl refused to play the flute with him and then he ended up in a secret lair of a local sorcerer. But what brings the boy most sufferings is his memories of his mother.
Director: Kirill Verkhozin, Asel Bagautdinova
Writer: Kirill Verkhozin
Cinematography: Kirill Verkhozin
Producer: Maxim Verkhozin
Cast: Gosha Zyryanov, Vlada Shipilova, Aleksey Khozyainov, Elena Rastiagaeva, Asel BagautdinovaProduction: Kirill Verkhozin
Awards: Jury diploma for the Organic Feeling of Cinema and Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Svyataya Anna festival, 2025
The boy's life in the kids' summer camp has gone wrong from the very start. First, a gang of Indians beat him up, then a girl refused to play the flute with him and then he ended up in a secret lair of a local sorcerer. But what brings the boy most sufferings is his memories of his mother.
Director: Kirill Verkhozin, Asel Bagautdinova
Writer: Kirill Verkhozin
Cinematography: Kirill Verkhozin
Producer: Maxim Verkhozin
Cast: Gosha Zyryanov, Vlada Shipilova, Aleksey Khozyainov, Elena Rastiagaeva, Asel BagautdinovaProduction: Kirill Verkhozin
Awards: Jury diploma for the Organic Feeling of Cinema and Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Svyataya Anna festival, 2025
THIS IS SOME BULLSHIT, BRO
Russia, 2024, 11’
The young rap artist Chizaru wakes up in a prison cell after a crazy party and tries to remember how he ended up being there.
Director, writer: Dima Teplov
Cinematography: Nikita Parsegov
Producer: Sergey Lapshin, Dima Teplov
Cast: Dmitry Teplov, Eldor Shodmonkulov, Daniil Egorov, Timur Kurbangaleev, Gor Kosakyan, Maria Voronina, Amir Batashev, Vsevolod Korshunov
The young rap artist Chizaru wakes up in a prison cell after a crazy party and tries to remember how he ended up being there.
Director, writer: Dima Teplov
Cinematography: Nikita Parsegov
Producer: Sergey Lapshin, Dima Teplov
Cast: Dmitry Teplov, Eldor Shodmonkulov, Daniil Egorov, Timur Kurbangaleev, Gor Kosakyan, Maria Voronina, Amir Batashev, Vsevolod Korshunov
APPLES
Russia, 2024, 19’
It so happens that Andrey ends up in a mental hospital. Incredible as it may seem, this is the place where he finds true friends for the first time in his life and gets a chance to change his life.
Director: Varya Matsenova
Writer: Alexandra Ilyina, Varya Matsenova
Cinematography: Andrey Goretsky
Producer: Alexandra KravetsCast: Antoha MC, Evgeny Perevalov, Ilya Borisov, Oleg Yagodin, Vera Avtomonova, Alexander Alexeev, Maria Starotorzhskaya
Production: Bazelevs
Awards: Best Film, Koroche film festival, 2024
It so happens that Andrey ends up in a mental hospital. Incredible as it may seem, this is the place where he finds true friends for the first time in his life and gets a chance to change his life.
Director: Varya Matsenova
Writer: Alexandra Ilyina, Varya Matsenova
Cinematography: Andrey Goretsky
Producer: Alexandra KravetsCast: Antoha MC, Evgeny Perevalov, Ilya Borisov, Oleg Yagodin, Vera Avtomonova, Alexander Alexeev, Maria Starotorzhskaya
Production: Bazelevs
Awards: Best Film, Koroche film festival, 2024