- year : 2020
- country : Armenia, Russia
- timing : 30:00'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Artak Serovani-Oganyan
written by Artak Serovani-Oganyan
produced by Gayane Igityan, Vigen Oganyan
DoP Artak Serovani-Oganyan
music by Manuk Kazaryan
sound by Evgeny Borisenko
editor Ararat Gulanyan (Lao Yan)
production company: Musk Studio
A mother and son live in seclusion and make coal for sale. They don't need words in their work and in their everyday lives; they understand each other with none. What would cause this silence to be broken?
- VGIK International Student Festival (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Open Documentary Film Festival "Russia" (2020, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana", Special Jury Mention for Cinematography (2020, Russia, Perm)
- Short to the Point International Short Film Festival (2021, Romania, Bucharest)
- International Festival of Student Films and Creative Photography "Golden Five" (2021, Russia, Khimki)
- ONE SHOT International Short Film Festival (2021, Armenia, Yerevan)
- Moscow Shorts International Film Festival, Best Documentary Short Film (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2021, India, Pune)
- Grand OFF World Independent Short Film Awards (2021, Poland, Warsaw)
- Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad" (2021, Belarus, Minsk)
- Northern Character International Film & TV Festival (2021, Russia, Murmansk)
- Kinoproba International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools (2021, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- International Festival of Films and TV Programs "Radonezh" (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- International festival "Meetings in Siberia" (2021, Russia, Novosibirsk)
- Evenings of Russian Cinema in Bordeaux (In Ciné Véritas Europe) (2021, France, Bordeaux)
- International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIZENIA (2022, Poland, Jelenia Góra)
- Student TEFI Awards Russian Television Competition, Finalist (2022, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- Northern Character: green screen International Festival of Environmental and Social Films, Special Diploma for the Best Director (2022, Russia, Murmansk)
- ONE Country ONE Film International Festival (2022, France, Apchat)
- Ujan International Documentary Film Festival "Apricot Tree" (2022, Armenia, Ujan Village)
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Artak Serovani-Oganian was born on 28.01.1981 in Berd, Armenia. In 2016 he entered the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a film director.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "The first ward", documentary
2017 - "Ainagul-crystal flower", documentary