- year : 2020
- country : Russia
- timing : 07:58'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Simon Lyashenko
written and produced by Simon Lyashenko
DoP Danil Nevsky
music by Andrey Romanov
sound by Makar Akhpashev
editor Stepan Grusha
production designer Angelina Kovalenko
cast: Eugene Serzin, Kostya Matyukhin, Olesya Sokolova, Andrey Lebedev
A young father preparing for the public protest is distracted by his six-year-old son who has loose tooth. While the father is persuading his son to pull it out, the police comes up to their front door.
- Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film festival «East&West. Classics and Avant Garde» (2020, Russia, Orenburg)
- Braunschweig International Film Festival (2020, Germany, Braunschweig)
- New Harvest Film Festival (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Madurai International Documentary and Short film Festival (2020, India, Madurai)
- International open youth festival of television programs and films "Telemania" (2020, Russia, Moscow and St. Petersburg)
- All-Russian Film Festival "Russian Elementary Cinema" [REC] (2020, Russia, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, St. Petersburg)
- International Film and TV Festival "Radonezh" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Video-art Festival "Black and White Rainbow" (2020, Russia, Togliatti)
- International Film Festival ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA (2021, Poland, Jelenia Gora)
- Social Machinery Film Festival (2021, Italy, Rizziconi)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Minsk International Short Film Festival "Kinosmena" (2021, Belarus, Minsk)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2021, India, Pune)
- Visioni Corte International Short Film Festival (2021, Italy, Gaeta)
- Independent Days International Filmfestival (2021, Germany, Karlsruhe)
- International Short Film Festival Detmold (2021, Germany, Detmold)
- Deep Fried Film Festival (2021, UK, Cotebridge)
- Portobello Film Festival (2021, United Kingdom, London)
- Procida International Film Festival (2021, Italy, Procida)
- International Film Festival of Lanzarote (2021, Spain, Lanzarote)
- Hamburger Deutsch-Russischen Kinoforum "KinoHafen" (2021, Germany, Hamburg)
- Torino Short Film Market (2021, Italy, Turin)
Director’s statement
The plot was based on the story of the child left by the police in an open apartment of Ilya Azarov, who was detained in September 2019.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Simon Lyashenko was born on 15.05.1989 in Smolensk. In 2011 graduated from St. Petersburg State University. Currently works as a Manager in an it-company.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Tooth", short film / debut