10th Jubilee Russian Independent Documentary Film Festival in New York – RusDocFilmFest-3W will be held in USA on October 20 — 22, 2017.
2 films from Russia, which CinePromo submits to film festivals, are selected to the competition program: "I Was Bitten By A Shark" by Maxim Kobzev and "Hear Me" by Olga Arlauskas and Svetlana Gorlo.
The annual international independent Russian documentary film festival in New York RusDocFilmFest-3W was created by The New Review Inc. in 2007, with the goal of supporting Russian-language documentary cinema and furthering the creative ties among the world film community. The unofficial slogan of the RusDocFilmFest-3W is “What a Wonderful World” and “Free World.”
The festival is held annually by The New Review Inc. in New York. The festival is a non-profit interactive platform for promoting open creative and artistic dialogue among professional documentary filmmakers. Since 2016, the festival’s General Sponsor is the Zimin Foundation.
The festival is also made possible with support from private American sponsors and The New Review Corporation.
More details about the selected films...
I WAS BITTEN BY A SHARK
2016, Russia, 59:45'
written, directed and produced by Maxim Kobzev
sound by Maxim Kobzev
DoP Maxim Kobzev
After a divorce Oleg decided to commit suicide and for this purpose he went off to war as a volunteer. His life became simple and clear. But the war placed the accents. Oleg hit a land mine, got to hospital and came back home. But at home Oleg disappointedly understands that nobody considers him as a hero, and on the contrary, he became a stranger for everyone and the only way - to return back to the combat zone.
North Caucasus Open Film Festival and TV "Kunaki" (2016, Abkhazia, Sukhumi)
Documentary Film Festival "ArtDocFest" (2014, Moscow, Russia)
Human Rights International Film Festival "Stalker", The Grand Prix "Stalker" (2016, Moscow, Russia)
International Film Festival DetectiveFEST, Special Jury Prize in the category "War and Peace" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona (2017, Spain, Barcelona)
Film Festival "Native Trails" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Open All-Russian Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the earth" (2017, Russia, Samara)
Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York (2017, USA, New York)
HEAR ME
2016, Russia, 90'
written by Olga Arlauskas
directed by Olga Arlauskas, Svetlana Gorlo
produred by Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
DoP Dmitriy Ivanov, Evgeniy Lopatkin, Arseniy Kalashnikov
About 13 million of Russians have impairment of hearing. 250000 of them live in full or partial silence. Such people are easy-going, they dream, fall in love, look for their dream job and really want to be of use to the society. They want to respect and be respected.
In order to make these dreams come true, people who hear well should make a step towards hearing impaired people, understand them and really try to hear them. Just because there are more hearing people than hearing impaired ones.
International Documentary Film Festival "ArtDokFest" (2016, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga)
Human Rights International Film Festival "Stalker", Special Jury Prize (2016, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival "Meeting" (2017, Russia, Obninsk)
Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (2017, India, Calcutta)
International Film Festival of Detective Films and Television programs on Law-Enforcement Themes DetectiveFEST (2017, Russia, Moscow)
International Film Festival "Golden Knight" (2017, Russia, Sevastopol)
Moscow Youth Film Festival "Let Us Live!" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York (2017, USA, New York)
International Film Festival "Veche bell" (2017, Russia, Krasnodar)
