
- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 14:07'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Olga Gagarina
written and produced by Olga Gagarina
DoP Pavel Smirnov
music by Evgeny Serzin
sound by Matvey Guzeev
editor Pavel Smirnov
production designer Evgenia Loseva
cast: Natalia Parashkina, Alexander Nesterov, Sofia Gorelik, Valentin Zakharov, Danila Pestrikov, Natalia Troitskaya-Lobanova, Lilia Gagarina, Artur Zhuravlev, Samat Urazbektinov, Evgenia Loseva
Inga, who has two loans and a young husband, really needs a job as a restaurant manager. Her natural shyness, as well as the negative attitude of the restaurant owner, who considers all women to be “chicks”, prevent her from showing her true self and talent in the interview. But then the Waiter brings her an envelope with the mysterious title "The Egyptian Story".
- Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2021, India, Madurai)
- SHORT to the Point International Short Film Festival (2021, Romania, Bucharest)
- Short Shot Fest International Short Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Social Justice Film Festival (2021, India, Chennai)
- International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Meeting" (2022, Russia, Obninsk)
- International Film Festival "Love in every heart" (2022, Russia, Dzerzhinsk)
- Houston Comedy Film Festival (2022, United States, Houston)
- GELOS Comedy Film Festival, Best Short Comedy (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Austin Comedy Film Festival (2022, USA, Austin)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2022, India, Pune)
- Moscow International Film Festival "Budem Zhit" (Let's live) (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Northern Character" (2022, Russia, Murmansk)
- International Short Film Festival "Window" (2022, Russia, Omsk)
- All-Russian Film Festival of Author's Short Films "Artkino" (2023, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
Without love, everything loses its meaning, becomes unkind, ugly, dead. Love life, love a person, love the business you are doing, and the world will be saved! That’s what I was thinking about when I shot this film.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Olga Gagarina was born on 06.08.1974 in Murmansk, Russia. In 2001 graduated from Russian State Institute of Performing Arts. In 2020, she completed the course "Filmmaking" - a joint educational program of the Higher School of Cinema Arka and the production center Potential.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "Chicks", short film \ debut
2021 - "I'm going to fight!", short student film