AsterFest International Film Festival will take place in Strumica (Macedonia) on June 26 - 29, 2017.
4 short films from Russia, which CinePromo submits to film festivals, are selected to the competition program: dramas "Live" by Elena Piskareva and "Your Steps" Max Kubrinskiy, and the documentaries "The Roads We Don't Take" by Zlata Oronova and "Mess" by Ilya Zheltyakov.
More details about the selected films...
LIVE
Russia, 2016, 16:28'
directed and produced by Elena Piskareva
8 women in the ward waiting for their turn to the abortion. They all are of different ages, but they have one thing in common - as it seems, they all have a very good reason to make such a terrible decision. During the easy conversation they are leaving the ward one after another and coming back... After...
Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna" (2016, Moscow, Russia)
International Youth Film Festival "Light To the World", Diploma in the category "Best Short Film Prize", Special Jury Prizes (2016, Russia, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Uglich, Rostov Great)
Odense International Film Festival (2016, Denmark, Odense)
Festival "Let Us Live", Best Short Film Prize (2016, Belarus, Molodechno)
Doc Sunback Film Festival (2016, USA, Kansas)
All-Russian Shukshin film festival, Best Short Film Prize (2016, Russia, Barnaul)
KONIK Film Festival, Best Short Film Prize (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival (2016 Hungary, Miskolc)
Film Festival "Spot In The Endless Universe" (2016, Russia, Crimea)
Christian Film Festival, Best Short Film Prize, Best Actress Prize - Mariya Hlopetskaya, Best Supporting Actress Prize - Natalya Borisova (2016, USA, Virginia)
Los Angeles CineFest (2016, USA, Los Angeles)
International Short Film Festival in Drama (2016, Greece, Drama)
Christian Life International Film Festival (2016, Canada, Ontario)
International Film Festival "For Life", Special Jury Prize - Crystal ball (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Roma Cinema DOC (2016, Italy, Rome)
McMurray International Film Festival (2016, Canada, Fort McMurray)
Festival "I See God!" (2016,Russia, Moscow)
Moscow Youth Film Festival "Let Us Live!", Best Film Prize in the category "Drama" (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Film Festival "Saint Vladimir" (2016, Russia, Sevastopol)
Cyprus International Film Festival (2016, Cyprus)
New World Studios International Film Festival (2016, USA, Cedar City)
El Ojo Cojo International Film Fest (2016, Spain, Madrid)
Southern Colorado Film Festival (2016, USA, Alamosa)
International Film Festival "Radiant Angel" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
Russian Film Festival "The Man Investigating the World" (2016, Russia, Simferopol)
Women’s International Film Festival “KIN” (2016, Armenia, Yerevan)
International Youth Short Film Festival "Visions" (2015, Russia, Kemerovo)
Russian Film Festival "ARTkino", People's Choice Award (2015, Russia, Moscow)
Russian Film Festival "The man learns the world" (2016, Russia, Crimea)
Access Code Short Film Festival (2016 India, Bangalore)
International Festival of Films and Television Programs "Radonezh" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival "Kinoproba" (2016, Russia, Ekaterinburg)
Madurai Film Festival (2016, India, Madurai)
Participant of All-Russian Action "Short Films Day 2016" with the support of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the National Center of Cinematography and Animation of France
Human Rights International Film Festival "Stalker", Special Jury Prize (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short-Film Exhibition (2016 China, Beijing)
Grenzland Filmtage (2017, Germany, Selb)
International Women's Film Festival «8 Women» (2017, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival AsterFest (2017, Macedonia, Strumica)
YOUR STEPS
Russia, 2016, 21:14'
directed by Max Kubrinskiy
produced by Max Kubrinskiy, Anastasiya Pavlovich
Vladimir is 68 years old. Olga, his neighbor, dies at the hospital. He lived all his life with Olga on the same landing. Only close relatives are allowed to her. Vladimir buys 3 minutes to view her and to make a major confession of his life.
International Motivational Film Festival "BRIDGE OF ARTS" (2016, Russia, Rostov-on-Don)
Moscow Youth Film Festival "Let Us Live!" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival Golden Anteaters (2016 Poland, Lublin)
Tirana International Film Festival (2016 Albania, Tirana)
International Film Festival and TV Programs "Radonezh" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short-Film Exhibition (2016 China, Beijing)
Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival AsterFest (2017, Macedonia, Strumica)
THE ROADS WE DON'T TAKE
2016, Russia, 13:36'
directed and produced by Zlata Oronova
The life of a long-term prisoner of the Gulag, the author of the memoirs "The Way" - Olga Adamova-Sliozberg.
Women’s International Film Festival “KIN” (2016, Armenia, Yerevan)
International Izmir Short Film Festival (2016, Turkey, Izmir)
Tirana International Film Festival (2016, Albania, Tirana)
Ismailia International Film Festival (2017, Egipt, Ismailia)
Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival AsterFest (2017, Macedonia, Strumica)
MESS
2015, Russia, 12:22'
directed and produced by Ilya Zheltyakov
The realities of today's Russia. A multitude of stories from a flea market. Dirt, thieves, drugs, vodka, garbage and real treasures, different destinies, dreams, hopes, death, a mingle-mangle of Uzbek pilaf… All of this bubbles and boils crushed by the train rushing by at full speed.
International Short Film Festival "Open Cinema", Best Documentary Prize (2015, Russia, St. Petersburg)
Film Festival "Kinolikbez" (2015, Russia, Barnaul)
International Student Anthropological Film Festival (2015, Russia, Ekaterinburg)
Krakow Film Market (2015 Poland, Krakow)
Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2015, Russia, Vyborg)
Participant of the All-Russian action "The World of Documentaries. Message To Man" on 08.27.2015 in 8 Russian cities
Hamburg Internationales KurzFilmFestival (2016, Hamburg, Germany)
Cebu International Documentary Film Festival (2016, Philippines, Cebu)
TV Film Forum "Native paths" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
Days of ethnographic films (2016, Russia, Moscow)
