Bodhisattva International Film Festival will be held in India from 16th to the 23th of February 2017. Russian short film "Old Iron Woman" by Anastasia Polukhina is included into short film competition. CinePromo is the film festivals agent of the film.
Earlier the film took part in domestic film festivals, such as "ArtKino" in Moscow, "Koroche" in Kaliningrad, "Vision" in Kemerovo, and also at the large festivals in Bilbao, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Bangladesh and China.
OLD IRON WOMAN
2015, Russia, 18:07'
written and directed by Anastasia Polukhina
(based on the novel by famous Russian writer Andrey Platonov)
produced by Ilya Zheltyakov
DoP Konstantin Goryachev
music by Alfred Schnittke
sound by Gabriel Biryulin
editors Anastasia Polukhina, Konstantin Goryachev
Art Director Roman Eryomin
cast: Ivan Lygin, Yulia Marchenko, Alexey Fokin
Little Egor investigates the world around. “Who are you?”, - he asks the wind. “Why are you here?”, - he asks the bug.
Before bed, his mother tells him a story about an old iron woman, which kills the ones who doesn't sleep.
At night Egor looks for the old iron woman in the gulley, finds her and enters an imaginative struggle with her. In the morning mother finds sleeping Egor. He says he decided to become an iron old man and to kill the old iron woman. Mother takes home her half asleep son.
XpoNorth Creative Industries Festival (2014, UK, Inverness)
Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films (2014, Spain, Bilbao)
Russian Film Festival "ArtKino" (2014, Russia, Moscow)
Russian Festival of Short Films "Shorter" (2014, Russia, Kaliningrad)
Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner (2014, France, Cannes)
Festival of Short Films "The First Step", Best DoP Prize (2014, Russia, Velikiy Novgorod)
The Barents Environmental Film Festival (2015, Russia, Petrozavodsk)
Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna" (2015, Moscow, Russia)
Film Festival "Kinolikbez" (2015, Russia, Barnaul)
Open Air Cinematography Festival "The point in the endless universe" (2016, Russia, Crimea)
Internationa Short Film Festival "The Unprecedented Cinema" (2016, Estonia, Maardu and Tallinn)
Film Festival n.a. V.M Shukshin (2016, Russia, Barnaul)
International Film Festival "Radiant Angel" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
International Short Film Festival "Vision" (2016, Russia, Kemerovo)
International Short & Independent Film Festival in Dhaka (2016, Bangladesh, Dhaka)
Craft Film Festival (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short-Film Exhibition (2016 China, Beijing)
Bodhisattva International Film Festival (2017, India, Patna)
