- year : 2021
- country : Russia
- timing : 11:24'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Irina Valts
written by Anna Gergel
produced by Vladimir Stukanov, Irina Valts
DoP Ilya Lovky
music by Yuri Shevalin
sound by Dmitry Belan
editor Evgeniya Lazarenkova
cast: Mark-Malik Murashkin, Dmitry Vyatkin, Stanislav Solomatin, Daria Egorova, Andrey Pogorelov, Valeria Voyager, Anastasia Gavrikova, Dmitry Zorikov, Arseny Gavrikov, Svetlana Puzanova, Roman Melders, Vladimir Stukanov
The action takes place in a children's camp. While everyone is busy with the story of the missing cup, the main character deals with his fears and emotions being the main suspect. How to explain to others that the possession of the cup is not the limit of dreams?
- Pune Short Film Festival (2021, India, Pune)
- KinoDUEL International Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- MosFilmFest International Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- International Short Film Festival "VISION" (2021, Russia, Kemerovo)
- Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2021, India, Madurai)
- International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "MEETING" (2022, Russia, Obninsk)
- International Short Film Festival "Window" (2022, Russia, Omsk)
Director’s statement
There are always two sides of the same coin. And human beings are woven of complex internal and external experiences. We struggle with our fears and the doppelgangers that live inside us. And only life and the person themselves will decide which of them will win and when exactly it will happen. When did you first think about the meaning of life, about destiny?
Events happen around us, people meet, there are arising problems that need to be solved, and difficult situations to be resolved, and so much more. This encourages us to look at the world in a broader, deeper way. Some of us go to the top of life, and this is enough for them, while some of us experience deeply and dig deep within ourselves, at the same time solving the mundane moments that we meet along the way. And so our character finds himself in an unpleasant situation with the theft of the cup, but that's not what he cares about. When everyone is busy looking for the cup, our character is looking for himself.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Irina Valts was born on 10.02.1984 in Moscow, Russia. In 2005 graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) (workshop V. A. Grammatikov). Theater and film actress. Teacher of stage art in children's studios.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - "12+", short film \ debut
2021 - "This is not a war", short film
