Since the first CineFest in 2004 the Miskolc International Film Festival is on a very promising way to became a major Central European film event. Year by year, Jameson CineFest attracts thousands of movie fans and visitors from the whole world. Many attractive supplementary programs - exhibitions, workshops, roundtable discussions - will accompany the nightly screenings. Some fine concerts, film history workshops and a retospectives will accompany the event.
Jameson CineFest will be held in Miskolc on September 8-17, 2017. 5 short films from Russia, which CinePromo submits to film festivals, are selected to the competition program: "Deadline" by Sergey Pozdnyakov, "The Last Tram" by Daria Molchanova (Gorky film studio), "The Tussle" by Evgeniy Nikitin (Сompany "Take & Shot"), "So that mom is happy" by Asya Mozhegova and "Close relations" by Anna Simakova.
More details about the selected films...
DEADLINE
2017, Russia, 15:00'
written and directed by Sergey Pozdnyakov
produced by Olga Dupak
DoPs Boris Kirisenko, Boris Begin
music by Debug, Helgeborga Dupakaite
sound by Dmitriy Loychenko, Ekaterina Novoydarskaya
editor Sergey Pozdnyakov, Ilya Trushkov
production designer Sergey Pozdnyakov
cast: Pavel Egorov, Ludmila Sedykh, Tatyana Fedorovskaya
Nick learns that his mom is incurably ill. He has to choose: to stay with her in hospital or to comply with the deadline of his another project. Nick succumbes to the threats of his boss and leaves his mom. And only God knows what will happen then. Do you have a choice?
THE LAST TRAM
Russia, 2017, 18:46'
written and directed by Darya Molchanova
produced by Anna Yurtaeva, Sergey Zernov, Denis Molchanov
DoP Danila Goryunkov
music by Alex North
sound by Alya Yartseva
editor Petr Levchenko
production designer Elena Ashraf
cast: Diana Rakhimova, Alexander Matveev, Mariya Malkova, Vladimir Malkov, Ekaterina Ovsyannikova
The last days of a mother and son, which they are spent together before mother being sent to a psychiatric clinic.
THE TUSSLE
2017, Russia, 30'
written and directed by Evgeniy Nikitin
produced by Ravil Salikhov, Yaroslav Kuzin
DoP Dmitriy Petin
sound by Andrey Kashin
editor Evgeniy Nikitin
production designer Diana Asadova
cast: Vladislav Valihmetom, Victoria Plop, Yana Krivulya, Yakov Yudinskih, Helga Filippova, Ivan Zubkov
Edik Karpov, a school bully, goes over the line during the biology lesson. This fact makes Alisa Klimovich, a newcomer, extremely angry, so she decides to teach him a lesson.
SO THAT MOM IS HAPPY
2017, Russia, 12:34'
written and directed by Asya Mozhegova
produced by Dmitry Lunev
DoP Anatoliy Trofimov
music by Vyacheslav Onishchenko
sound by Alexey Chintsov
editor Mikhail Shipilov
cast: Elena Svanidze, Ivan Koldare
The young woman gets the last chance to please her mom. She just has not to spoil her funeral.
CLOSE RELATIONS
2017, Russia, 29:47'
written by Anna Simakova, Yuliya Solovyova
directed by Anna Simakova
DoP Alexey Petrushkevich
music by Vyacheslav Tkach
sound by Sergey Vlasov
editor Anna Krutiy
production designer Evgeniya Lenyova
cast: Igor Hripunov, Olga Litvinova, Vladimir Seleznyov
The couple relationship is in crisis. The conflict is flared up following a mother's serious illness that requires a constant attention of her son. He believes that all difficulties can be overcome, and, torn between two loved ones, he tries to please everyone. The wife sees only one way to save the collapsing marriage - to take the mother to a nursing home. Everyone has to make a difficult choice in order to stay together.
