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XIV Saint Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films BEGINNING

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X I V S A I N T P E T E R S B U R G internationa l F E S T I V A L of d ebut an d stu d ent fi l ms

with the assistance of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg Founder St. Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union

P R O G R A M 27.11–01.12.2015 ACCREDITATION From November 27 6.00 p.m.

AVRORA cinema theater, foyer From November 28 10.00 a.m LENFILM cinema center, foyer November 27 18.00 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL OPENING CEREMONY DESERT DANCER Fiction, color, 98’, 2014, Great Britain, Russia

Director Richard Raymond

November 28 09.40 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS BLOODHOUND Fiction, color, 19’, 2014

Experimental Film Center, Italian National Film School (CSC), Rome Director Tommaso Landucci ABOUT LIFE Fiction, color, 4’49’’, 2013

Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany Producer, Director Hamed Mohammadi CLOUDY CHILDREN Fiction, color, 18’, 2015

Iranian Young Cinema Society, Iran Director, Scriptwriter Reza Fahimi DIXIE Fiction, color, 13’44’’, 2014

Florida State University, USA Director, Scriptwriter, Sound Armaan Uplekar ALFIE Fiction, color, 4’30’’, 2015

Bray Institute of Further Education, Ireland Producer, Director, Scriptwriter Charlotte Carney ONNO THE OBLIVIOUS Fiction, color, 29’, 2014 The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam Director Viktor van der Valk WIFE Fiction, color, 8’, 2014

Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic Director Lubos Kucera B.R.O. Fiction, color, 13’32’’, 2015

National University of Theatre and Film «I.L. Caragiale», Bucharest, Romania Director, Scriptwriter Florin Babei

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE OLD AGE Fiction, color, 6’’, 2015

Madrid Film and Audiovisual School (ECAM), Spain Director Victor Ruiz Junquera LARP Fiction, color, 27’, 2014

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Kordian Kadziela 11.00 ANGLETERRE Cinema Lounge COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS CHERRY TOBACCO Fiction, color, 93’, 2014, Estonia

Production – Kuukulgur Film Directed, Written by Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik

12.15 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS LA ETIUDA Fiction, color, 7’, 2015

Polish National Film, Television and Theater School, Lodz Director Martin Rath MASHKA Fiction, color, 26’03’’, 2014

The Russian Federation State University of Cinematography, Moscow Director Igor Kagramanov NEVER COME BACK Fiction, color, 16’, 2014

Centre of Cinema Training, Mexico City, Mexico Director, Scriptwriter Leonardo Diaz PERSEFONE Fiction, color, 18’, 2014

Experimental Film Center, Italian National Film School (CSC), Rome Director, Scriptwriter Grazia Tricarico SWEET HOME Fiction, color, 8’45’’, 2014

Filmfabriq, University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, Hungary Director Akos Badits THROW ME TO THE DOGS Fiction, color, 12’15’’, 2015

University of Arts, London, Great Britain Directed, Written by Aaron Dunleavy, Joseph Ollman MACHITO Fiction, color, 2’24’’, 2014

27 Production Company, Mexico Director, Director of Photography, Scriptwriter Arturo Campos BLACK FRIDAY Fiction, color, 21’, 2015

National University of Drama and Film (UNATC), Bucharest, Romania Director Roxana Stroe MOTHER EARTH Fiction, color, 30’, 2014

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Lodz Director, Scriptwriter Piotr Zlotorowicz

13.00 ANGLETERRE Cinema Lounge COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS PARTISAN Fiction, color, 98’, 2015, Australia

Production – Animal Kingdom, Warp Films Australia Director Ariel Kleiman

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13.40 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING HEADFIRST Fiction, color, 93’, 2014, Finland

Production – Helsinki Filmi Oy Director, Scriptwriter Antti Heikki Pesonen

15.25 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING VIOLENCE Fiction, color, 78’, 2015, Colombia, Mexico

Production – Burning Blue, Blond Indian Films, Congo Films, Post Bros Director, Scriptwriter Jorge Forero 16.00 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE JURY CHOICE: MARK LWOFF MASTER-CLASS A SWEDISH LOVE STORY Fiction, color, 115’, 1970, Sweden

Director, Scriptwriter Roy Andersson

17.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT FICTION FILMS BLAZING SUN Fiction, color, 24’, 2015

Free Angels Films, Belgium Director, Scriptwriter Fred Castadot GREY BULL Fiction, color, 15’, 2014

Independent Production, Australia Director, Scriptwriter Eddy Bell HAOAR TANEY Fiction, color, 6’24’’, 2015

Backbench Films, Gao Productions, Bangladesh Director, Scriptwriter Fuad Naser SLAUGHTERHOUSE Fiction, color, 24’, 2015

Azadi Independent Film Group, Tehran, Iran Director, Scriptwriter Behzad Azadi 400 BAGS Fiction, color, 22’, 2014

Centre of Cinema Training, Mexico City, Mexico Director, Scriptwriter Fernanda Valadez

18.50 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE JURY CHOICE: MARINA ROSSET LA FILLE AUX FEUILLES Animation, color, 6’, 2013, Switzerland

Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Marina Rosset LATERARIUS Animation, color, 4’, 2010, Switzerland

Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Marina Rosset THE BEAR’S HAND Animation, color, 4’30’’, 2008, Switzerland

Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Marina Rosset AFTER THE CAT Animation, color, 4’09’’, 2005, Switzerland

Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Marina Rosset

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BOTTOOBAHTOH Animation, color, 3’, 2007, Switzerland

Director Marina Rosset

19.00 ERARTA SMALL HALL 1 SPECIAL SCREENING LABOUR OF LOVE Fiction, color, 84’, 2014, India

Production – Salaam Cinema Director, Scriptwriter Aditya Vikram Sengupta

19.00 ERARTA SMALL HALL 2 SPECIAL SCREENING QUASAR Animation, color, 11’20’’, 2015

E-motion-Film, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Egor Kharlamov DIDN’T SEE, DIDN’T DO Fiction, color, 30’, 2015

St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Rostislav Smirnyagin ABOUT DAD Fiction, color, 22’28’’, 2015

Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow, Russia Producer, Director, Scriptwriter Andrey Garanin NEW HAPPY LIFE IS SOON TO COME Documentary, color, 36’, 2015

St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Konstantin Selin CHANAPAR Documentary, color, 18’37’’, 2015 Independent Production, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Lyubov Asmodei

19.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT FICTION FILMS THE LAST ONE Fiction, color, 14’25’’, 2014

Buta Films, Azerbaijanfilm, Baku, Azerbaijan Director Sergei Pikalov THE LIGHTS Fiction, b/w, 6’, 2014

Salomon Cine, Argentina Directed, cinematography, written by Manuel Abramovich, Juan Renau THE NOISEMAKER Fiction, color, 15’, 2014

Ciobreliai, Vilnius, Lithuania, Sweden Director, Scriptwriter Karolis Kaupinis THE SESSION Fiction, color, 12’21’’, 2015

Crew du Chapeau Productions, France Director, Scriptwriter Edouard de la Poeze THE WILD CHILDS Fiction, color, 13’, 2014

Independent Production, Montreal, Canada Director Renaud Lessard FATHER’S DAY Fiction, color, 30’, 2014

Polish Filmmakers Association, Munk Studio, Warsaw, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Kacper Lisowski

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21.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS THE GULLS Fiction, color, 87’, 2015, Russia

Production – Telesto production company Director, Scriptwriter Ella Manzheeva

21.00 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS NO ONE’S CHILD Fiction, color, 95’, 2014, Serbia, Croatia

Production – Art & Popcorn, BaBoon Production, Kinorama Director, Scriptwriter Vuk Rsumovic

22.50 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS THE LESSON Fiction, color, 105’, 2014, Bulgaria, Greece

Production – Abraxas Film, Graal Film, Littlewing Productions, Screening Emotions Directed, Written by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

November 29 09.40 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT ANIMATION FILMS CTRL+S Animation, color & b/w, 6’07’’, 2015

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Produced, Directed by Yoong Wah, Alex Wong ABOUT A MOTHER Animation, b/w, 7’20’’, 2015

School-Studio “SHAR”, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Production Designer Dina Velikovskaya BLINDLY Animation, color, 2’, 2014

Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Animation Designer, Sound Joanne van der Weg CARAMELMAN Animation, color, 3’10’’, 2015

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), South Korea Producer, Director, Scriptwriter Jihye Jung FLEISCHWELT Animation, color, 0’52’’, 2015

Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter, Production Designer, Animation Designer Ara Jo GO TO CITY ELE Animation, color, 9’, 2015

Sichuan University, China Director Wenyu Li HURRY UP Animation, color, 4’50’’, 2014

La Cambre - National School of Visual Arts, Brussels, Belgium Director Margot Reumont

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I COULD EAT A HOURSE Animation, color, 4’30’’, 2015

The University of South Wales, United Kingdom Director Jake Hovell ISKON ANIMA AETERNAM Animation, color, 14’03’’, 2015

University of Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Sound, Production Designer, Animation Designer Mihajlo Dragas LITTLE JACQUE Animation, b/w, 1’30’’, 2015

National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, Great Britain Director, Scriptwriter John Davide NEUTRAL Animation, b/w, 4’15’’, 2014

Sakarya University, Istanbul University, Turkey Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Editing Volkan Guney Eker NOVELL Animation, color, 7’17’’, 2014

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, ELO Film School, Helsinki, Finland Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Inka Matilainen OVATION Animation, color, 3’30’’, 2015

Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, USA Produced, Directed, Written by Sofia Keqian Wang, JoAnn Kang PRIVATE GREEN Animation, color, 5’, 2015

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), South Korea Produced, Directed, Written by Ha Seonyeong, Bak Yoohyun PUTAIN Animation, color, 5’15’’, 2015

La Cambre - National School of Visual Arts, Brussels, Belgium Director, Scriptwriter Cypria Donato ROCK IS NOT AN ATTITUDE Animation, color, 5’09’’, 2014

School of Visual Arts, New York, USA Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer, Editing Xiaoxiao Tang SOCIAL ANIMALS Animation, color, 4’30’’, 2015

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary Directed, Written by Zoltan Koska, Panni Gyulai, Anna Flora Buda, Eniko Szasz, Barbara Takacs THE DEAF Animation, color, 6’28’’, 2015

National Chengchi University, Taiwan Produced, Directed, Written by An Ni Hsu, Sing Yu Fang THE DARKEST WHITE NOISE Animation, color, 9’21’’, 2014

St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Darya Pilipenko TORO Animation, color, 3’29’’, 2014

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Sound, Production Designer, Animation Designer Lynn Kim

11.00 ANGLETERRE Cinema Lounge COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS SANCTUARY Fiction, color, 104’, 2015, Germany

Production – Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion Director Marc Brummund

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11.45 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT ANIMATION FILMS CHULYEN, A CROW’S TALE Animation, b/w, 20’, 2015

Independent Production, France Directed, Written by Cerise Lopez, Agnes Patron DAEWIT Animation, b/w, 14’50’’, 2015

Fabian&Fred, Hamburg, Germany Director, Animation Designer David Jansen FONGOPOLIS Animation, color, 13’, 2014

Feel me film, Slovakia Director Joanna Kozuch J AND THE FISH Animation, color, 9’, 2015

Collectif Comet, Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Cecile Paysant IN THE DISTANCE Animation, color, 7’30’’, 2015

Independent Production, Germany Director, Producer Florian Grolig GOLDEN BIRD Animation, color, 10’40’’, 2014

Independent Production, India Producer, Director Debraj Sarkar KENSHO Animation, b/w, 4’3’’, 2015

Independent Production, Great Britain Producer, Director Aaron Paradox MAN ON THE CHAIR Animation, color, 7’, 2014

Sacrebleu Productions, France, South Korea Director, Scriptwriter Dahee Jeong MAKE IT YOURSELF Animation, color, 5’25’’, 2014

Independent Production, Iran Producer, Director, Scriptwriter Maryam Tabatabaei THE VAST LANDSCAPE - PORCELAIN STORIES Animation, color, 11’, 2014

AKC Attack!, Croatia Director, Scriptwriter Lea Vidakovic SIMULACRA Animation, color, 8’40’’, 2014

Bonobostudio, Zagreb, Croatia Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Ivana Bosnjak, Thomas Johnson STRIPY Animation, color, 3’33’’, 2015

Gonbad Caboud Studio, Tehran, Iran Directed, Written by Babak Nekooei, Behnoud Nekooei THE TREE Animation, color, 5’, 2014

Raiavin Studio, Iran Producer, Director, Editing Sare Shafipour WOOLEN COGWHEELS Animation, color, 14’, 2014

Kineskop, Krakow, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Bartosz Kedzierski YUL AND THE SNAKE Animation, color and b/w, 13’, 2015

Kazak Productions, Paris, France Director Gabriel Harel

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13.00 ANGLETERRE Cinema Lounge COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS CAMP X-RAY Fiction, color, 117’, 2014, USA

Production – GNK Productions, Gotham Group, Rough House Pictures Director, Scriptwriter Peter Sattler 13.40 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING SILENCE OF THE RIVER Fiction, color, 79’, 2015, Colombia, Uruguay, France

Production – Igolai Producciones, Promenades Films, Seacuatico Director, Scriptwriter Carlos Tribino 15.10 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING I AM NOJOOM AGE 10 AND DIVORCED Fiction, color, 96’, 2014, Jemen, France, United Arab Emirates

Production – Hoopoe Film Director, Scriptwriter Khadija Al-Salami 16.00 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE JURY CHOICE: STANISLAV F. ROSTOTSKY THE BLACK CAT Fiction, b/w, 65’, 1934, USA

Director Edgar G. Ulmer 17.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS THE GOOB Fiction, color, 86’, 2014, Great Britain

Production – BBC Films, BFI, Creative England Director, Scriptwriter Guy Myhill

17.45 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE JURY CHOICE: ROBERTO BERLINER MASTER-CLASS BORN TO BE BLIND Documentary, color, 97’, 2003, Brazil

Production – TV Zero Director Roberto Berliner

19.00 ERARTA SMALL HALL 1 SPECIAL SCREENING IMMINENT THREAT Documentary, color & b/w, 73’, 2015, USA

Production – Assembly Line Entertainment, Future Proof Films, Lima Charlie Media Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Editing, Sound Janek Ambros 19.00 ERARTA SMALL HALL 2 SPECIAL SCREENING THE EDGE Fiction, color, 15’12’’, 2015

Independent Production, Russia Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Sound, Production Designer Ivan Ponkratov

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HOME DELIVERY Fiction, b/w, 8’59’’, 2014

St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Anastasia Molchanova THE BRIDGE Fiction, color, 51’, 2015

Lenfilm Studios, St.Petersburg, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Naur Garmelia WHY BANANA SNARLS Animation, color, 10’12’’, 2014

School-Studio SHAR, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Svetlana Razgulyaeva THE AWAKENING Fiction, color, 16’55’’, 2015

LLC Producing center Youth Initiatives, Moscow, Russia Director Konstantin Tishchenko TORTURE Fiction, color, 16’, 2015

The Russian Federation State University of Cinematography, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Aleksandr Hunt 19.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS HEROES OF EVIL Fiction, color, 98’, 2015, Spain

Production – Bestia Produce, Nadie es Perfecto, Pokeepsie Films Director, Scriptwriter Zoe Berriatua 21.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 600 MILES Fiction, color, 85’, 2015, Mexico, USA

Production – Lucia Films Director Gabriel Ripstein 21.00 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS COURT Fiction, color, 116’, 2014, India

Production – Zoo Entertainment Director, Scriptwriter Chaitanya Tamhane

November 30 11.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS HOMELAND Documentary/fiction, color, 17’, 2014

The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam Director, Scriptwriter Natalie Crum ECONOMIC FORECASTERS Documentary, color, 23’20’’, 2015

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, ELO Film School, Helsinki, Finland Director, Scriptwriter Reetta Huhtanen I STAY Documentary, color, 11’, 2014

Kiev National University of Theater, Cinema and Television, Ukraine Director Oleksandr Soldatov

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BEATING SCRATCHES Documentary, color, 25’, 2014

Professional Institute of Chile Directed, Edited by Francisco Beain, Victoria Velazco SOUNDS OF KAZINCBARSIKA Documentary, colour, 14’25’’, 2014

DocNomads, Budapest, Hungary Director, Production Designer Aleksandr M. Vinogradov

13.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS MARSHALLING PEACE Documentary, color, 16’01’’, 2015

Columbia University, New York, USA Director, Editing Autumn Bordner KNIFE IN THE WIFE Documentary, color, 11’, 2014

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Vita Drygas KOKOM Documentary, color & b/w, 4’59’’, 2014

Wapikoni Mobile, Canada Director, Scriptwriter Kevin Papatie A PLACE LIKE THIS Documentary, color and b/w, 7’26’’, 2015

Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, Lucerne, Switzerland Director, Editing Philip Meyer MOTAVR Documentary, color, 15’08’’, 2015

St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Kristina Gazaryan THE GUARDIANS Documentary, color, 26’40’’, 2014/15

Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter Benjamin Rost SMELL OF OIL Documentary, color, 12’53’’, 2014

St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Director Irina Vlasova

13.40 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING COMING OF AGE Documentary, color, 63’, 2015, Lesotho, South Africa, Germany

Production – Steps Director, Scriptwriter Teboho Edkins 14.50 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING POET ON A BUSINESS TRIP Fiction, color & b/w, 103’, 2015, China

Production – Trench Film Group Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Ju Anqi

16.00 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE JURY CHOICE: VERA ZELINSKAYA ME TOO Fiction, color, 80’, 2012, Russia

Director, Scriptwriter Aleksey Balabanov

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17.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS BENNY Documentary, color, 19’, 2015

Centre of Cinema Training, Mexico City, Mexico Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Editing Argel Ahumada NORTH-SOUTH Documentary, color, 17’18’’, 2015

Independent Production, Russia Director Andrey Pershin PIGS Documentary, color & b/w, 17’, 2014

Medula Producciones, Spain Director, Producer, Scriptwriter Carlos Navarro STRONGWOMAN Documentary, color, 17’, 2014

Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Warsaw Directed, written by Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska THE BONE BUSINESS Documentary, color, 14’20’’, 2015

EDVC, Afghanistan Producer, Director Rahman Alemi WHITE DEATH Documentary, b/w, 17’, 2014

Independent production, Chile Director, editing, sound, music Roberto Collio

17.50 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE JURY CHOICE: GELA BABLUANI MASTER-CLASS THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Fiction, color, 129’, 2009, Argentina, Spain

Production – Tornasol Films, Haddock Films, 100 Bares Director Juan Jose Campanella 18.00 CINEMA HOUSE ROUND TABLE

19.00 LENFILM cinema center COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS BARBARIANS Fiction, color, 87’, 2014, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia

Production – Restart, Sense Production, OR, Film Center Serbia Director, Scriptwriter Ivan Ikic 19.20 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS CLASS ENEMY Fiction, color, 112’, 2013, Slovenia

Production – Triglav Film Director Rok Bicek 21.00 LENFILM cinema center SPECIAL SCREENING CLOSER THAN APPEARS Fiction, color, 126’, 2015, Russia

Directed by German Dyukarev, Alena Rubinshtein, Andrey Kim, Maxim Voskoboev, Natalya Belyauskene

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21.20 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS THEEB Fiction, color, 100’, 2014, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, UK

Production – Bayt Al Shawareb, Noor Pictures, Immortal Entertainment Director Naji Abu Nowar

December 1 11.00 LENFILM cinema center RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING SEVEN BARRIERS Fiction, color, 63’, 1991, USSR

Director, Scriptwriter Pavel Klushantsev 13.00 LENFILM cinema center RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING SUCKER - WATER WINNER Fiction, color, 86’, 1991, USSR

Production – Troitsky Most Studios Director, Scriptwriter Arkadiy Tigay 13.40 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING LABOUR OF LOVE Fiction, color, 84’, 2014, India

Production – Salaam Cinema Director, Scriptwriter Aditya Vikram Sengupta 15.00 LENFILM cinema center RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING LETTERS FROM A DEAD MAN Fiction, color, 88’, 1986, USSR

Production – Lenfilm Studios Director Konstantin Lopushansky 15.10 AVRORA cinema theater / SMALL CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING VIOLET Fiction, color, 82’, 2014, Belgium

Production – Minds Meet, Artemis Productions, Phanta Film, Mollywood Director, Scriptwriter Bas Devos 15.30 LENFILM cinema center PRESS-CONFERENCE 16.00 WORD ORDER BOOKSTORE SPECIAL SCREENING IMMINENT THREAT Documentary, color & b/w, 73’, 2015, USA

Production – Assembly Line Entertainment, Future Proof Films, Lima Charlie Media Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Editing, Sound Janek Ambros 19.00 AVRORA cinema theater / BIG CINEMA HALL CLOSING CEREMONY THE SHOW OF SHOWS: 100 YEARS OF VAUDEVILLE, CIRCUSES AND CARNIVALS Documentary, color&b/w, 72’, 2015, Iceland, Great Britain

Production – Saga Film, Crossover Labs Director Benedikt Erlingsson

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AVRORA DATE

LENFILM BIG HALL

27.11

SMALL HALL

18.00. OPENING CEREMONY DESERT DANCER 09.40; 12.15. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS SPECIAL SCREENING 13.40. HEADFIRST 15.25. VIOLENCE 17.00. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT FICTION FILMS

28.11

19.00. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT FICTION FILMS 21.00. COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS THE GULLS

TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 21.00. NO ONE’S CHILD 22.50. THE LESSON

09.40. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT ANIMATION FILMS 11.45. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT ANIMATION FILMS SPECIAL SCREENING 13.40. SILENCE OF THE RIVER 15.10. I AM NOJOOM AGE 10 AND DIVORCED 29.11 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 17.00. THE GOOB

19.00. HEROES OF EVIL TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 21.00. COURT

21.00. 600 MILES 11.00; 13.00. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS SPECIAL SCREENING 13.40. COMING OF AGE 14.50. POET ON A BUSINESS TRIP 17.00. COMPETITION PROGRAM SHORT FILMS DEBUT DOCUMENTARY FILMS

30.11

19.00. COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS BARBARIANS

TOP-5 COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 19.20. CLASS ENEMY

21.00. SPECIAL SCREENING CLOSER THAN APPEARS 21.20. THEEB RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAM 11.00. SEVEN BARRIERS SPECIAL SCREENING 13.40. LABOUR OF LOVE

13.00. SUCKER – WATER WINNER 15.00. LETTERS FROM A DEAD MAN

15.10. VIOLET

01.12

15.30. PRESS-CONFERENCE / PRESS-CENTER 19.00. CLOSING CEREMONY THE SHOW OF SHOWS: 100 YEARS OF VAUDEVILLE, CIRCUSES AND CARNIVALS

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ERARTA WORD ORDER

CINEMA HOUSE

ANGLETERRE

SMALL HALL # 1, #2

COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 11.00. CHERRY TOBACCO 13.00. PARTISAN

16.00. JURY CHOICE: MARK LWOFF MASTER-CLASS A SWEDISH LOVE STORY

18.50. JURY CHOICE: MARINA ROSSET 19.00. SPECIAL SCREENING LABOUR OF LOVE 19.00. SPECIAL SCREENING SHORT FILMS

COMPETITION PROGRAM FEATURE FILMS 11.00. SANCTUARY

13.00 CAMP X-RAY

16.00. JURY CHOICE: STANISLAV F. ROSTOTSKY THE BLACK CAT 17.45. JURY CHOICE: ROBERTO BERLINER, MASTER-CLASS 19.00. SPECIAL SCREENING BORN TO BE BLIND IMMINENT THREAT 19.00 SPECIAL SCREENING SHORT FILMS

16.00. JURY CHOICE: VERA ZELINSKAYA ME TOO 17.50. JURY CHOICE: GELA BABLUANI, MASTER-CLASS THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

18.00.

ROUND TABLE

16.00. SPECIAL SCREENING IMMINENT THREAT

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