- year : 2018
- country : USA, Russia
- timing : 10:38'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Julia Trofimova
written by James Barron
produced by Kseniya Yorsh
DoP Egor Povolotskiy
music by Sergey Stern
editor Monge
production designer Tatiana Sitnikova
cast: Kyle Walters, Jason Tobias, John Macey, Grace Bosley, Robert Brisco Evans
As part of an experimental therapy, a depressed employee must navigate his office job with a personal narrator who speaks aloud his every thought.
- International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival (2019, Turkey, Istanbul)
- International Film Festival Independent Days (2019, Germany, Karlsruhe)
- International Film Festival Grenzland Filmtage (2019, Germany, Selb)
- Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna", Special Diploma (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Fajr International Film Festival (2019, Iran, Tehran)
- Sguardi Altrove International Film Festival (2019, Italy, Milan)
- International Short Film Festival Detmold (2019, Germany, Detmold)
- Burgas International Film Festival (2019, Bulgaria, Burgas)
- Unknown Film Festival, GOLD (2019, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- Budapest Short Film Festival "BuSho" (2019, Hungary, Budapest)
- World Street Film Festival (2019, Cities around the world)
- Oporto International Short Film Festival Porto7, Audience Award (2019, Portugal, Porto)
- Postira Seaside Film Festival (2019, Croatia, Postira)
- Film Festival "Crystal Source" (2019, Russia, Yessentuki)
- Motovun Film Festival (2019, Croatia, Zagreb)
- Shikshin Russian Film Festival (2019, Russia, Barnaul)
- Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt (2019, Germany, Weiterstadt)
- Kraljevski filmski festival (2019, Serbia, Kraljevo)
- Visioni Corte International Film Festival (2019, Italy, Minturno)
- Kaliningrad short film festival (2019, Russia, Kaliningrad)
- Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market (2019, Japan, Sapporo)
- Edinburgh Short Film Festival (2019, United Kingdom, Edinburgh)
- Osnabrück Independent Film Festival (2019, Germany, Osnabrück)
- Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival, BEST SCREENPLAY (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Festival of young cinema "New harvest", BEST FILM (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Festival of Ecological and Social Cinema "Northern Character: Green Screen" (2019, Russia, Murmansk, Norway, Kirkenes)
- Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film (2019, Serbia, Belgrade)
- OFFline Film Festival (2019, Ireland, Birr)
- Lublin Film Festival (2019, Poland, Lublin)
- International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth Berlin (2019, Germany, Berlin)
- Schwenninger Shortfilmfestival (2019, Germany, Nuremberg)
- Madurai International Documentary and Short film Festival (2019, India, Madurai)
- Film and Media Art Festival "backup & beyond" (2019, Germany, Weimar)
- FANTAELX Elche International Fantastic Film Festival (2019, Spain, Elche)
- International Short Film Festival "Vision" (2019, Russia, Kemerovo)
- International film festival of student films and film schools "Bastau" (2019, Kazakhstan, Almaty)
- Bucharest Short Film Festival, Jury Award of Recognition (2019, Romania, Bucharest)
- Film Festival "Black and White Rainbow", 1st Place in the Category "Short Fiction Film" (2019, Russia, Togliatti)
- Films Festival "Young Kinovek", Diploma of the I Degree in the Category "Best Fiction Film" (2019, Russia, Krasnodar)
- All-Russian Action "Short Film Day", Diploma (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Golden Crow International Arctic Film Festival (2020, Russia, Anadyr)
- KINNO [Moscow] (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- ClujShorts International Short Film Festival (2020, Romania, Cluj-Napoca)
- Los Angeles Short Film Festival (2020, United States, Los Angeles)
- International Short Film Festival Corti a Ponte (2020, Italy, Ponte San Nicolo)
- USA Film Festival, Finalist (2020, United States, Dallas)
- Almagro International Film Festival (2020, Spain, Almagro)
- Film in Karlsruhe (2020, Germany, Karlsruhe)
- Au Contraire Film Festival (2020, Canada, Montreal)
- International Short Film Festival SHORT FORM (2020, Serbia, Gornji Milanovac)
- Shorts Attack - Interfilm Berlin (2020, Germany, Berlin)
- Russian National Short Film Festival “Artkino” (2020, Russia, Moscow)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Julia Trofimova was born on 27.03.1978 in Kaluga, Russia. In 2001 graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2017 graduated from New York Film Academy as a screenwriter, and filmmaking courses of Moscow Film School. She directed "The Narrator" in 2018 in Los Angeles.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 - "The Narrator", short film
2018 - "Eulogy For Denis K.", short film
2018 - "I'm In The Game", short film / debut