- year : 2019
- country : Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia
- timing : 20:53'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Sofya Leonidova
written by Sofya Leonidova
produced by Sergey Britvin
DoP Alexey Tabakov
music by Alexander Lenichko
sound by Nikita Pugach, Daniil Munirov
editor Sofya Leonidova
production company: Institute of Cinema and Television (GITR)
Portrait of Kazakh-Russian painter Latif Kazbekov. We’ll meet him in the studio - the place where outer world and inner world are mixed together. Where paintings as a result are less important than process itself. Paper reliefs, thoughtful paintings, artisanal paper-making and endless questions. An attempt to look into origins of art and answer the questing: where do paper worlds come from?
- FilmArte Festival, Best Short Doc Film (2019, Madrid, Spain)
- Zilant International Film Festival, Best Student Doc Film (2019, Russia, Kazan)
- Youth Festival of Television Films and Programs "Telemania", Best Documentary (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Short Movie Club (Unfiltered Cinema) Film Festival (2020, Belarus, Minsk)
- Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Forum “Zolotoy Vityaz” (Golden knight), I Place in the Competition "Documentary Short Films" (2020, Russia, Sevastopol)
- International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana (2020, Russia, Perm)
- International Film Festival "Lovers of art. Kinonasledie" (2020, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- DEA OPEN AIR International Film Festival (2020, Albania, Tirana)
- Open Film Festival "Kinoshok", Special Prize for "Best debut" (2020, Russia, Anapa)
- International Film Festival of Spiritual, Moral and Family Film "Saint Vladimir", Second Prize for Short Documentary Film (2020, Russia, Sevastopol)
- Festival of Russian cinema "Man Cognizing the World" (2020, Russia, Kerch, Feodosia)
- International Festival of Military-Patriotic Film "Volokolamsk Frontier" (2020, Russia, Volokolamsk)
- Almaty Indie Film Festival (2020, Kazakhstan, Almaty)
- National Award in the field of Non-Fiction Films and Television "Laurel Branch", Nominee (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Kinoproba International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools (2020, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the Earth" (2020, Russia, Samara)
- Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2020, India, Madurai)
- Video-art Festival "Black and White Rainbow", 2nd Place in the Short Documentary Film Category (2020, Russia, Togliatti)
- Ujan International Documentary Film Festival "Apricot Tree" (2021, Armenia, Yerevan)
- Moscow International Design Festival (2023, Russia, Moscow)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Sofya Leonidova was born on 25.05.1994 in Kharkov, Ukraine. At the present moment she is a student of Institute of Cinema and Television (GITR) as a film director. Works in the Production studio "Kinosvod".
FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 - "Paper worlds of Latif Kazbekov", documentary / student film
2017 - "The Three Lives of Tikhon", documentary
2016 - "Little Beach", documentary
2015 - "Room for one", documentary