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FRANKA

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  • year : 2018
  • country : Belarus
  • timing : 29:21'
  • genre : fiction film
  • producer : Mitry Semenov-Aleynikov

written by Valentin Zaluzhniy, Igor Torotko
produced by Belarusfilm
DoP Pavel Skakun
music by Karina Samtsova
sound by Andrey Chernitsky
editor Tatyana Gryzunova
production designer Andrey Tolstik
cast: Marina Poddubnaya, Anton Zhukov, Zinaida Zubkova, Juliana Mikhnevich, Karina Samtsova, Ksenia Chernitskaya, Maxim Zheleznyak, Anatoly Likhodievsky
production company: Studio "Belarusfilm"

Franka. Belarus, the year of 1943. A shell-shocked German soldier comes to farmstead where women shelter from the war. The women are scared of him and almost finish him off. But they take pity on the soldier at the last minute and let him stay with them. Would they be able to get on with the foe?

  • Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad", Special Jury Prize (2018, Belarus, Minsk)
  • Umut International Forum of the CIS countries, Grand Prix, Best Actress Prize - Marina Poddubnaya (2018, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek)
  • International Film School of Young Filmmakers "Commonwealth", 3rd Place (2019, Georgia, Batumi)
  • Days of German and Russian Short Film "Vkratze!"( 2019, Russia, Volgograd)
  • Sukhum International Film Festival, Audience Prize (2019, Abkhazia, Sukhum)
  • Pune Short Film Festival (2019, India, Pune)
  • International Youth Film Festival "Light to the World", Grand Prix (2019, Russia, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Uglich)
  • International short film festival "WINDOW", People's Choice Award (2019, Russia, Omsk)
  • "One Shot" Film Festival (2019, Armenia, Yerevan)
  • Short Film Festival about the Great Patriotic War and World War II "Break for Cinema", Grand Prix (2019, Russia, St. Petersburg)
  • Eurasia International Film Festival (2019, Kazakhstan, Astana)
  • Festival Live Cinema "Kinoles", 2nd Place (2019, Russia, St. Petersburg)
  • Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival (2019, Hungary, Miskolc)
  • Shikshin Russian Film Festival (2019, Russia, Barnaul)
  • International Youth Film Festival KZN (019, Russia, Kazan)
  • International Film Festival “East & West. Classics and Avant-garde"(2019, Russia, Orenburg)
  • Baiqonyr International Short Film Festival, "Best operator" - Pavel Skakun (2019, Kazakhstan, Almaty)
  • Cottbus Film Festival, Grand Prix (2019, Germany, Cottbus)
  • International Festival of Orthodox Cinema «Pokrov», Diploma for Best Actress - Marina Poddubnaya (2019, Ukraine, Kiev)
  • The Golden Unicorn Awards & Russian Film Week (2019, UK, London)
  • Moscow Shorts Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
  • ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival (2019, Romania, Targu-Mures)
  • Madurai International Documentary and Short film Festival (2019, India, Madurai)
  • International Film Festival "Cinema and You" (2019, Ukraine, Mariupol)
  • International Charity Film Festival "Radiant Angel", Best Fiction Short Film (2019, Russia, Moscow)
  • Kuban Festival of Orthodox Films "Veche bell" (2019, Russia, Krasnodar)
  • International festival of cinema and television programs "Radonezh" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
  • All-Russian Action "Short Film Day", Diploma (2019, Russia, Moscow)
  • Grand OFF World Independent Short Film Awards, Best production design (2019, Poland, Warsaw)
  • International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Meeting" (2020, Russia, Obninsk)
  • ClujShorts International Short Film Festival (2020, Romania, Cluj-Napoca)
  • Golden Raven International Arctic Film Festival (2020, Russia, Anadyr)
  • International Films Festival DetectiveFEST (2020, Russia, Moscow)
  • Moscow Film Festival "Let's live" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
  • Portobello Film Festival, Best Film (2020, UK, London)
  • Russian National Auteur Short Film Festival “Artkino” (2020, Russia, Moscow)
  • Festival of village cinema "PECHKA", Best Film (2021, Russia, Shelota)

 


ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:

Mitry Semenov-Aleynikov was born on 15.03.1990 in Minsk, Belarus. In 2011 he graduated from Belarusian State Academy of Arts (dramatic actor of theater and cinema). In 2013 he entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) (film directing and screenwriting department). Currently he works as a director and screenwriter.


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2018 - "Franka", short film
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