Congratulations to the winners of the Moscow Shorts May 2019 Edition. There were many great entries and it was hard for us to make a decision. We are delighted to announce however, that the 10 winners of our categories are listed here:
BEST FILM
Over the Wall
Director: Roy Zafrani
Country: Israel
Duration: 12:22
Synopsis: A coincidental meeting between an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy leads them to discover that reality is different than what they have been told.
BEST DIRECTOR
AND SO HE OPEN HIS EYES
Director: Sergey Vasiliev
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 12:00
Synopsis: A small swindler after an unsuccessful coincidence finds himself in the afterlife court as a defendant. The judge is a man, who he literally to death annoy during his lifetime.
BEST SCREENPLAY
No Heroes
Director: Kamil Loutfi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 18:30
Synopsis: Taxi driver Daniel picks up his last fare for the night, a boy and his father in a hurry to get to the airport. When the boy starts acting strangely, Daniel begins to suspect that the father isn’t who he claims to be. No Heroes is a film about finding the courage to act, knowing who to trust in a world of conflicting truths and our responsibility towards strangers.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dark like the night. Karenina-2019.
Director: Radda Novikova
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 08:22
Synopsis: Love and betrayal, faith and treason – nothing has changed in our world since ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy came out. The question is, will a modern character be willing to become a victim of circumstances and the public opinion or will she be struggling for her life? Alexander Tsypkin, an author and script-writer, has his own view of Anna Karenina of modern times, and producer Radda Novikova has created a gloomy but very beautiful world where everybody gets his/her whack of it, the gossip media and so-called friends, the powers that be and the cynical heartthrobs.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
LOVE
Director: Henri Bassil
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 11:17
Synopsis: “The mystery of love is greater then the mystery of death” Oscar Wilde.
What if, just what if, love was not that mysterious after all?
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
No Heroes
Director: Kamil Loutfi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 18:30
Synopsis: Taxi driver Daniel picks up his last fare for the night, a boy and his father in a hurry to get to the airport. When the boy starts acting strangely, Daniel begins to suspect that the father isn’t who he claims to be. No Heroes is a film about finding the courage to act, knowing who to trust in a world of conflicting truths and our responsibility towards strangers.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Sink or Skim
Director: Austen McCowan, Will Hewitt
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 30:00
Synopsis: The World Stone Skimming Championships is held of a tiny Scottish Island. Two obsessed skimmers show us what it takes to be the world’s biggest tosser.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
MATCHES
Director: Géza M. Tóth
Country: Hungary
Duration: 11:25
Synopsis: A lonely boy is playing with his colorful matchsticks. While he is talking about his dreams, fears and hopes, the matchsticks bring his visions to life. The film is based on an interview with the 7-year-old L. S.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
CONTACT
Director: Lamara Sogomonyan
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 02:58
Synopsis: #contact
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Dark like the night. Karenina-2019.
Director: Radda Novikova
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 08:22
Synopsis: Love and betrayal, faith and treason – nothing has changed in our world since ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy came out. The question is, will a modern character be willing to become a victim of circumstances and the public opinion or will she be struggling for her life? Alexander Tsypkin, an author and script-writer, has his own view of Anna Karenina of modern times, and producer Radda Novikova has created a gloomy but very beautiful world where everybody gets his/her whack of it, the gossip media and so-called friends, the powers that be and the cynical heartthrobs.
