RFW 2019: Short Film Selection 3

Adjika Extreme Team
Running Time: 20 min
Director: Sergey Tselikov
Cast: Dmitriy Trusov, Alexander Golodiskiy, Ivan Orlov, Alexander Puris, Sergey Bazarov, Yuriy Gumirov

A training session of extreme sport activists “ADJIKA” is interrupted by the arrival of a stranger. He offers them money and promises them instant fame. All they have to do for him in return is one simple favour…

Arkady
Running Time: 12 min. 04 sec.
Director: Ekaterina Stashevskaya
Cast: Grigory Chaban, Ilya Lovky, Yuriy Safarov, Yakov Tikhomirov, Alexander Pronkin, Nikolay Zhuravlev

Our times. The time of tolerance, total equality and fraternity. An intern, a trial for the experimental all-national programme “Tolerant Russia”, joins the police station in the N city. Arkadiy Chizhikov, the young and law-abiding Russian brown bear, who speaks Russian and walks like a human. The humble and silent intern does his best to blend into the team and to earn trust and respect. But the team doesn’t accept the newcomer.

Fucktower
Running Time: 18 min
Director: Vitali Dudnik
Cast: Ilya Malanin, Uliya Khlynina, Isa Novikov, Adam James

Viktor and Olga are fighting in court for the guardianship of their son, Kyrill. In secret from her ex-husband, Olga is going to move abroad with her son and her new boyfriend, Ben. But Victor finds out about her intentions.

Action
Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
Director: Karimova Railya
Cast: Karimova Railya
Life is a drama, but nobody cares.

My Name is Petya
Running Time: 15 min.
Director: Daria Binevskaya
Cast: Nadia Slavezkaya, Peter Del, Svetlana Bolshakova, Ekaterina Finevich, Sophia Bazhenova and Sofia Belova

On a late winter night, a mother with two young children gets into an isolated room of an infectious disease hospital. Strange events begin to happen there that would turn her life upside down.

Russia, 2019
In Russian with English subtitles.
Q&A session with director Sergey Tselikov (Adjika Extreme Team)