- year : 2021
- country : Russia
- timing : 20:50'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Alexandr Kott
written by Alexandr Kott
produced by Alexandra Leibovich
DoP Petr Dukhovskoy
music by Alexey Aigi
editor Anna Krutiy
cast: Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Anatoly Bely
production company: HOTSHOT FILMS
A man, forced to sacrifice interaction with his family for the sake of success at work, invites his mother to a restaurant, to take a break from the hustle, chat with a loved one and, finally, to get out of his state of permanent stress. But everything goes wrong at once: his mom cannot figure out the menu, and his phone is torn from work calls.
- International Open Youth Festival of Television Programs and Films "Telemania", 1st place in the category Telemania Professional (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Corti da Sogni International Short Film Festival (2022, Italy, Ravenna)
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (2022, Japan, Tokyo)
- International Film Forum "Zolotoy Vityaz" (Golden Knight) (2022, Russia, Sevastopol)
- International Short Film Festival “The Unprecedented Cinema” (2022, Estonia, Maardu and Tallinn)
- KONIK Film Festival (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Moscow International Film Festival "Budem Zhit" (Let's live), Award "For Contribution to Art" to Svetlana Nemolyaeva for brilliant acting work (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Golden Phoenix International Film Festival of Actors-Directors, Special Prize named after Anatoly Papanov for Svetlana Nemolyaeva (2022, Russia, Smolensk)
- International Film Festival «East&West. Classics and Avant Garde» (2022, Russia, Orenburg)
- Vision International Short Film Festival (2022, Russia, Kemerovo)
- Asti International Film Festival (2022, Italy, Asti)
- International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Internationale Grenzland-Filmtage (2023, Germany, Selb)
Director’s statement
A film about the important things we pay for a stressful life.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Alexandr Kott was born on 22.02.1973 in Moscow, Russia. In 1997 graduated from Andrzej Wajda's course in Krakow and and made his film debut with the short film "Photographer”, which participated at Cannes Film Festival in the student film competition “Cinefondation" (1998). In 1999 he graduated from The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). His graduate work was the short film "Scarecrow” (2000), which won the Grand Prix at Hamburg International Short Film Festival and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Award at Berlinale.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - "Gogol-Mogol", short film
2021 - "The Seventh Symphony", series
2020 - "Consequences", series
2018 - "The Last Christmas Trees", full-length film
2018 - "Spitak", full-length film
2018 - "The Day Before", full-length film
2017 - "Trotsky", series
2016 - "Christmas Trees 5", full-length film
2015 - "Insight", full-length film
2014 - "Christmas Trees 1914", full-length film
2014 - "Test, full-length film
2013 - "Christmas Trees 3", full-length film
2012 - "The Other Side of the Moon", series
2011 - "Christmas Trees 2", full-length film
2011 - "My favorite goofball", full-length film
2011 - "Diamond Hunters", series
2010 - "The Brest Fortress", series
2010 - "Moscow. Central District 3", series
2010 - "Decoy", full-length film
2009 - "Close Embrace", short film
2009 - "I'll show you Moscow", full-length film
2008 - "The Fish", short film
2007 - "Outsider", full-length film
2006 - "Hero of our Time", series
2005 - "Related exchange", series
2004 - "Convoy PQ-17", series
2003 - "The Giant", short film
2003 - "The list of lovers of the Russian Federation", series
2002 - "Circus", series
2001 - "Once There Were Two Drivers", feature film / debut
2000 - "Scarecrow", short student film / diploma
1997 - "Photographer", short student film / debut
