International Film Festival Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) will take place from April 25–30, 2017. "Diamonds for my ants" by Karina Vilenkina is included into the short films competition.
The film is distributed by CinePromo.
AFO is currently one of the most important European festivals in the area of popular science film. It aims to present science as an attractive, dynamic and diverse sector through films charting natural, humanities and social science disciplines. Each year, hundreds of documentary films and television programs enroll in the competition sections of the festival. It originated in 1966.
“Many people think that the topics covered by the festival such as the environment, artificial intelligence, robotics or global warming are a thing of the future, a problem of next generations. This could not be further from the truth. The future is now and we are in the spotlight, all of us need to take action. As Stephen Hawking put it—we are at the most fascinating and dangerous moment in the history of human species,” says the program director Jakub Ráliš in describing the message and philosophy of AFO52.
The Future Is Now! is not just the main slogan of the futuristic 52nd installment, but also the summary of the entire program. The program team had to choose from the record number of 3 000 science-documentary films submitted to the festival from all over the world. In the end, they picked exactly 52 of them—20 into the International Competition, 16 into Czecho-Slovakia Competition and 16 into Short Film Competition.
DIAMONDS FOR MY ANTS
2016, Russia, 15:22'
written and directed by Karina Vilenkina
produced by Karina Vilenkina, Dmitriy Vorotilin
DoPs Denis Levin, Danila Sidorov
music by Artem Avetisyan, Dmitriy Vorotilin, Anton Zavrazhnov, Ildar Shaymyardyanov, Unstable Elements
sound by Alexander Motylev
editor Karina Vilenkina
"Diamonds for my Ants" - an awe inspiring story of Andrey Pavlov, who became disabled at the age of 50, but found a courage to start over and now his photographs of ants are famous worldwide.
Academia Film Olomouc (2017, Czech Republic, Olomouc)
