- year : 2017
- country : Russia, Latvia, Poland
- timing : 30'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Maria Tsvetkova
written by Mariya Tsvetkova
produced by Andrey Grigoryev
DoPs Maksim Potapov, Vlad Pogoreliy
music by Marina Makarova
sound by Elena Krivosheeva, Yuliya Bazhenova
editor Alexey Radushkevich
production designers Darya Denisova, Aleksandra Ermakova
cast: Nadezhda Karpukhina, Evgeniy Zhuk, Yuri Yafaev, Michael Ikonnikov, Sergey Kulikov, Boris Grabak, Victor Kuzin, Rosa Tsvetkova, Alisa Tsvetkova, Jerzy Piatkowski, Victoria Bogatyreva, Ksenia Naboichenko, Elena Ubugunova, Anna Karaman, Anastasia Stefanyak, Anastasia Palunina, Alexandra Shevchenko, Konstantin Delacroix
Ear-splitting sirens, medics shouting – and then the terrifying scenes of the ambulance service disappear... and we find ourselves in talk-show TV studio, along with the woman who'd been on the hospital stretcher. The spotlights gleam, the presenter exudes charm – and the audience delightedly cheers something... that's not-quite-discernable...
This is how it all seems for the heroine of Final Judgement – or perhaps it is [Non-]Final Judgement? - a television show which puts her whole life under the microscope, and where every decision she's ever taken is judged, evaluated, and assigned a tag-number.
Was hers a good life? Maybe at least adequate? Boring? Exciting? Would she do it all again? Or would she change anything?
How sure are you of your own desires? Or maybe it's all... what someone else wants? Is it worth basing your life on your desires, when you stop to think... you only have one life?
- Experimental Film Festival "PURE" (2017, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- Ural Russian Open Film Festival (2017, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- Russian Film Festival "The man learns the world" (2017, Russia, Simferopol \ Evpatoria \ Yalta)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2018, India, Pune)
- International Film Festival "SKEY-CINEMA" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Cinema and You" (2018, Ukraine, Mariupol)
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Special Jury Prizes - Best DoPs Maksim Potapov, Vlad Pogoreliy, Best Editor Alexey Radushkevich (2018, Russia, Orel)
- Young Film Festival "Green Apple" (2018, Russia, Novosibirsk)
- International Short Film Festival “I See God” (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Film Festival "Black and White Rainbow" (2018, Russia, Togliatti)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Maria Tsvetkova is a Moscow based filmmaker, scriptwriter and photographer, born in Moscow on 09.12.1982. In 2010 graduated from The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a scriptwriter, dramatic art and film director. Since 2010 actively involved as part of the creative team both as a director and scriptwriter in the production of feature and documentary films, theater productions and art projects in collaboration with the Russian and international young dramatists, independent filmmakers and producers.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2017 - "Non Final Judgement", short film \ debut
2014 - "KINO Lady", documentary
2013 - "The Darkness of Power ", short film
2013 - "The Field ", the documentary
2013 - "In the Name of You", documentary series
2012 - "Reservation", documentary
2011 - "Musaha " documentary