Sose International Film Festival will be held in Armenia on August 14 - October 14, 2017. Festival announced the official selection of 8 fiction films, which CinePromo submits to film festivals.
In the main competition includes "Sneakers" by Sergey Solovyov, "Timeline" by Mikhail Romanovskiy, "Close relations" by Anna Simakova, "The Law Of The Excluded Third Or No Third Is Given" by Alexandra Sokolovskaya, "The Utopians" by Svetlana Sukhanova, "Cannibal" by Alexander Vysokovskiy and "Dominika" by Oleg Ageychev.
"Good Gay" by Olga Dibtseva is selected to the competition of student films.
SNEAKERS
2016, Russia, 96:58'
directed by Sergey Solovyov (based on the novel "Paradise Found" by famous Russian writer Andrey Gelasimov)
produred by Natalya Treushnikova, Sergey Solovyov, Vasiliy Vakulenko
Based on a short story "Paradise Found" by Andrey Gelasimov. On the eve of his draft day a youngster Sasha nicknamed Jagger decides to spend the modest amount of money he has saved to buy stylish sneakers. By chance the sneakers take him to a girl named Amira, with whom he spends the night. In the morning it transpires that the girl has a nine-year-old son Mitia. The boy is autistic and suffers from some other mental illness. Amira asks Jagger and his friend to help her take the boy to the orphanage.
Moscow International Film Festival (2016, Russia, Moscow)
The Ural Festival of Russian Cinema (2016, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
Russian Film Festival "Sputnik over Poland" (2016 Poland, Warsaw)
International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
The nominee of the award "Golden Eagle" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
The nominee of the award "White Elephant" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
TIMELINE
2017, Russia - USA, 08:05'
directed and produred by Mikhail Romanovskiy
This is a short drama, about a single, middle-aged woman, who lost both of her sons. Ten years later, and still unable to overcome the pain of her loss, she makes an attempt to bring back her sons through a video editing program to be able to communicate with them. In order to accomplish that, she is seeking help from a young man who is a professional video editor and who's name and age happens to be the same as her youngest son's Alex.
XpoNorth Creative Industries Festival (2017, UK, Inverness)
Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival (2017, USA, Hollywood)
The Film Awards Adirondack Mountains Film Festival, Best Short Film (2017, USA, Adirondack)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
CLOSE RELATIONS
2017, Russia, 29:47'
directed by Anna Simakova
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.
Huesca International Film Festival (2017, Spain, Huesca)
Jameson CineFest (2017, Hungary, Miskolc)
Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
THE LAW OF THE EXCLUDED THIRD OR NO THIRD IS GIVEN
2016, Russia, 24:20'
produced and directed by Alexandra Sokolovskaya
Literary magazine editor mentally cheats on his young lover with his own wife, a university professor of Maths. He still feels the need in her fine and concise brain and their intellectually rich and direct discussions. After having a crash on the young girl he rejoins his wife. The constant irony helps them find a compromise solution to what has happened. But the real challenge is deeper, than usual crisis of the middle age and sexual dissatisfaction. The small family is broken apart together with the society.
Moscow Youth Film Festival "Let Us Live!", Special Jury Prize (2016, Russia, Moscow)
Film Festival BRIDGE of ARTS (2016 Russia, Rostov-on-Don)
Kinematic Shorts, People's Choice Award (2016, Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk)
Women’s International Film Festival “KIN” (2016, Armenia, Yerevan)
World Film Festival of Bangkok (2016, Thailand, Bangkok)
Short Film Festival POTENTIAL (2016, Russia, St. Petersburg)
International Izmir Short Film Festival (2016, Turkey, Izmir)
Film Festival "Let's smile, Russia!" (2016, Russia, Tula)
International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools "Kinoproba" (2016, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
"Kyrgyzstan - the country of short films" (2016, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek)
International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Craft Film Festival (2016, Moscow, Russia)
Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short-Film Exhibition (2016, China, Beijing)
International Orthodox Film Festival "Meeting" (2017, Russia, Obninsk)
International Women's Film Festival «8 Women» (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
International Short Film Festival "New Horizon" (2017, Russia, Voronezh)
International Film Festival "Light To The World", 3nd Best Film Director Prize, Best Short Film according to the version of the International Youth Jury (2017, Russia, Yaroslal - Rybinsk)
International Film Festival "Golden Knight" (2017, Russia, Sevastopol)
Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
THE UTOPIANS
2017, Russia, 29:54'
directed by Svetlana Sukhanova
produced by Alexander Khachko
This is the movie about real friendship, desire to live and the dreams. Fedor won a lottery and gone to round-the-world travel. But that was a fake version for his close friend Andrey. Actually he had died in hospital cause of cancer. So Andrey has to undestand why his friend has been liing to him.
International Short Film Festival "New Horizon", People's Choice Award (2017, Russia, Voronezh)
Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner (2017, France, Cannes)
International Film Festival "Light To The World", 2nd Best Film Director Prize, Best Short Film according to the version of the International Youth Jury (2017, Russia, Yaroslal - Rybinsk)
Interregional Forum "White Acacia" (2017, Russia, Stavropol)
Near Nazareth Festival (2017, Israel, Afula)
PUFF. Pineapple Underground Film Festival (2017, China, Hong Kong)
Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
CANNIBAL
Belarus, 2016, 23:22'
directed by Alexander Vysokovskiy
produced by Yuriy Gromik, Konstantin Samarin
One day of life of residents of an apartment building which recognized their neighbour as a murderer and cannibal from the criminal TV-show "Watch Out with Eduard Tumanov".
Participant of Russian action "Short Film Day 2016" with the support of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the National Center of Cinematography and Animation France
Film Festival "Black and White Rainbow" (2016, Russia, Togliatti)
Grenzland-Filmtage (2017, Germany, Selb)
Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
DOMINIKA
2017, Russia, 79:38'
directed by Oleg Ageychev
produced by Oleg Ageychev, Valentina Cherepanova, Polina Zimnukhova
An unusual baby, a girl named Dominika, was dumped off to a perspective architect Kostia. Every time Kostia gets angry - the baby grows up...
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
GOOD DAY
Russia, 2016, 08:03'
directed and produced by Olga Dibtseva
The courier, delivering an order to a married couple, becomes a witness to several accidental deaths.
Russian Short Film Festival in Kaliningrad (2016 Russia, Kaliningrad)
Russian Film Festival actors-directors "Golden Phoenix" (2016, Russia, Smolensk)
Short Film Festival "Micro Fest" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
International Izmir Short Film Festival (2016, Turkey, Izmir)
ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival (2016 Romania, Targu Mures)
International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools "Kinoproba" (2016, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
Film Festival "Black and White Rainbow" (2016, Russia, Togliatti)
Participant of the Russian action "The Day of Short Films 2016" with the support of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the National Center of Cinematography and Animation France
Craft Film Festival (2016, Russia, Moscow)
Festival de Cortometrajes "Jose Francisco Rosado" PACAS (2016, Spain, Pedro Muñoz)
Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short-Film Exhibition (2016, China, Beijing)
Landshut Short Film Festival (2017, Germany, Landshut)
International Short Film Festival "Cortisonici" (2017, Italy, Vareze)
Grenzland-Filmtage (2017, Germany, Selb)
International Film Festival "Spirit of Fire", Grand Prix (2017, Russia, Khanty-Mansiysk)
St. Francis College Women's Film Festival (2017, USA, New York)
Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner (2017, France, Cannes)
Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Kimera International Film Festival (2017, Italy, Termoli)
Concordia Film Festival (2017, Canada, Montreal - Quebec)
Kino Open Air (2017, Germany, Eggenfelden)
International Short Film Festival "One Shot" (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
Festival of Independent Cinema "KinoLikbez", Best Comedy Prize (2017, Russia, Saint-Petersburg)
Sardinia Film Festival (2017, Italy, Sardinia)
International Short Film Festival "Porto7" (2017, Portugal, Porto)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
