RFW 2019: Short Film Selection 2

Spare
Running Time: 12 min 22 sec
Director: Vitaly Shepelev
Cast: Maxim Gromov, Anastasia Tsoy, Ivan Latushko, Ilya Kiporenko

A three glamorous characters have ordered a taxicab with an autopilot navigation to get to a fashion show on time. The smart system has chosen the route away from the dangerous districts. But there is a temptation to make the route shorter, and so the antagonists are in a tight corner: the wind screen is going to break under hits of the metal bar of aggressive gangs. What should they do, where to go and who to call for help? Fortunately, the transport company provides a “spare.”

The End of War
Running Time: 20 min.
Director: Sergey Ramz
Cast: Mikhail Troynik, Filipp Dyachkov, Ivan Lapin, Nikita Loginov

While returning from war, the captain of the Soviet army falls into an abandoned well. A random criminal wants to kill and rob him, but the doomed captain must report this crime even after his death in order not to be listed as missing.

The Future is Here
Running Time: 4 min. 49 sec.
Director: Igor Verstov
Cast: Egor Shevtsov, Igor Kolesnikov

A well-to-do young man comes to see a psychiatrist for a mental check-up. Word by word, and the character finds himself in some kind of a dreadful dream …

Allegro Moderato
Running Time: 15 min. 54 sec.
Director: Zurab Dzhidzhiilava
Cast: Darya Moroz, Larisa Udovichenko, Grigory Nekrasov, Ekaterina Panasyuk

The story of the musician Vasiliy who is following his dream. Not only does he have to audition in front of the world-renowned maestro, but also he has to unravel the opponent’s scheme.

Dark like the night. Karenina
Running Time: 8 min. 22 sec.
Director: Radda Novikova
Cast:Yulia Peresild, Maxim Sukhanov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Matvey Lykov, Mikhail Gorevoy

Love and betrayal, faith and treason – nothing has changed in our world since ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy. The question is, will a modern woman be willing to become a victim of circumstances and public opinion or will she be standing up for her life? Alexander Tsypkin, an author and script-writer, has his own view of Anna Karenina of modern times, together with the producer Radda Novikova they have created a gloomy but very beautiful world of the gossip media and so-called friends.

Russia, 2019
In Russian with English subtitles.
Q&A session with director Radda Novikova (Dark like the Night. Karenina), director Sergey Ramz (The End of War)