- year : 2016
- country : Russia
- timing : 9:50'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Tatiana Astapova
written by Tatiana Astapova
produred by Nikita Zorov
DoP Svetlana Romanova
music and sound by Stepan Sevastyanov
editor Tatiana Astapova
production designer Astanda Pkin
voice-over: Evgeny Tsyganov
cast: Esma Kvitsinia, Sunar Kvitsinia, Liana Maya Dzhikirba, Batisse Labakhua, Rismag Ajinjal, Aslan Hadzhinb, Robert Kvarchia, Astana Agrba, Roin Agrba, Slavik Tsvizhba
Action of the movie "Road to home" happens in the small village of Abkhazia, in which the local administration has decided to pave an asphalt road. On the way of construction there is a natural barrier - a free which, according to stories of old residents, has been here since the foundation of the village. Under a dense shadow of the tree, the inhabitants found salvation from the hot Abhazian sun, on the branches clawing more than one generation of boys and girls. It keeps the memory about love, about war and peace, about life and death. According to the legend, if to cut down this tree, the sun will become so bright that will burn everything - people, country, history.
- International Film Forum “Golden Vityaz” (2016, Russia, Sevastopol)
- International Youth Film Festival "Light of the World" (2016, Russia, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Uglich, Rostov)
- Internationa Short Film Festival "The Unprecedented Cinema", Best Director Prize (2016, Estonia, Maardu and Tallinn)
- KONIK Film Festival (2016, Russia, Moscow)
- Film Festival "Point in the endless universe" (2016, Russia, Crimea)
- Moscow Youth Film Festival "Let Us Live!" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
- Film Festival "St. Vladimir", The "Best Hero" Prize (2016, Russia, Sevastopol)
- International Film Festival "Radiant Angel" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
- TV Film Forum "Native paths" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
- Kazan International Festival of Muslim cinema (2016, Russia, Kazan)
- International Film Festival "Rendezvous with Russia" (2016, Russia, Ufa)
- International Short Film Festival Curta Cinema (2016 Brazil, Rio de Janeiro)
- International Festival of Films and Television Programs "Radonezh" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Nevskiy Blagovest" (2016, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- Film Festival "Black and White Rainbow", Diploma (2016, Russia, Togliatti)
- Participant Russian action "Day Short Film 2016" with the support of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the National Center of Cinematography and Animation of France
- Festival de Cortometrajes "Jose Francisco Rosado" PACAS (2016, Spain, Pedro Muñoz)
- International Film Festival "Meeting" (2017, Russia, Obninsk)
- Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Festival de Cannes, Short Film Corner (2017, France, Cannes)
- Festival de Cortometrajes "Jose Francisco Rosado" PACAS (2016, Spain, Pedro Muñoz)
- Kimera International Film Festival (2017, Italy, Termoli)
- Salón Internacional de la Luz (2017, Colombia, Bogotá)
- International Ethnocultural Festival "Nomad Universe" (2019, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Tatiana Astapova was born on 21.09.1992. In 2014 she graduated from The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a film director. Nominee of Russian TV Award “Tefi”.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2016 – “Road To Home”, short film
2014 – “Number One”, short film \ diploma
2013 – “Fairy Tale”, short student film (top of the best films of VGIK)