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Laurel Prize-2022 nominees
Laurel Prize-2022 nominees
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Lavr
Lavr
December 02, 2022
The second round of the XXIII National Prize "Laurel Branch" has been completed. According to the voting results of a professional jury of 50 representatives of the film industry three finalists were determined in five nominations. The voting results were recorded by independent auditors of the Geofact company. The winners of the Prize will be announced online on December 12, 2022.
Lawyer Maria Eismont takes on the Russian judiciary by proving the innocence of her client, activist Konstantin Kotov, in one of the most high-profile political cases in recent years.
The Case
8
Nina Guseva
Russia, 2021
76 min
Russian
The war surrounds Dmitry Poshtarenko everywhere. At the age of five, he found his first soldier in the courtyard of the house. Since then, Dmitry has been constantly involved in the search for soldiers who died during the Second World War. Determines the identity of the deceased, searches for his relatives, transfers the preserved things, resurrecting the memory of him. A few years ago, Dmitry decided to create images of missing soldiers in the form of sculptures frozen during the battle. Now he is surrounded by hundreds of newborn people, in whose eyes there is a dumb question, for what they died and why did they return to this crippled world?
Alive
9
Konstantin Selin
Russia, 2022
68 min
Russian
Russian, English
Ballet dancers Oleg and Vera divorced 30 years ago. Each of them today has a new family. The business trip they are going on is their chance to figure out why they did not save their family, but still cannot finally part. A dramatic story of love and hate, betrayal and betrayal, forgiveness and the impossibility of being together again.
NOT breakup
8
Nataliya Gugueva
Russia, 2022
68 min
Russian
English
On the remote coast of the Russian Arctic, a lonely man spends months in an old hut near the Chukchi Sea, waiting to meet mysterious creatures.
Haul Out
9
Maksim Arbugaev, Evgenia Arbugaeva
UK, 2022
25 min
Russian
The director of the film with three children moves to work in Germany. Lost and disoriented in the alien environment, the children start attending a circus school run by 60-year-old Hanspeter Kurtzhals. This helps them learn German and make friends in Germany. And the story of Hanspeter himself plunges the director into the past and forces him to go in search of circus actress Carmen, from whom only a few photographs of 30 years ago remain. In search of Carmen, who spends the night in a new place every week, cannot read or write, does not have an account in social networks and a permanent phone number, the director traveled 500 kilometers, visited four cities and five federal states of Germany, at a fair, in a stable, in in a beer tent, in a gypsy camp, I heard a dozen incredible stories and drew a large family tree.
Carmen, or the story of the unhappy love of Hanspeter of Oberkassel, which brought happiness to my children in a foreign country
8
Yulia Vishnevets
Germany, Russia, Georgia, 2022
80 min
German, Russian
In Donetsk, in the terrible and destructive atmosphere of the war, the violin teacher Larisa is raising a children's quartet. Music lessons help children escape from the effects of total horror. Larisa inspires children with her example of resilience and courage, desperately hiding her personal family tragedy. Soon the quartet will fall apart and the children will disperse in different directions. Before that, they will have their last joint performance in Moscow, in which they will enter into far from their last battle with darkness, horror and death.
Quartet
8
Nikita Stashkevich
Russia, 2022
63 min
Russian
English
Habitual life within the walls of the boxing club Torpedo is coming to an end. In November 2021, it was decided to demolish the historic building. Members of the club talk about time, life, say goodbye to their favorite place and past.
Hall
8
Polina Svezhentseva
Russia, 2022
55 min
Russian
English
Two guest workers came to Finland for easy money. The goal of Misha, a worker from the small Ukrainian town of Konotop, is to earn money for apartments so that he can rent them out and no longer work. Colonel of the Soviet army from Lithuania, Sergei Fedorovich, needs to put his pride, Land Rover, in order, and he also wants adventures in retirement. But they didn’t get very well on the summer estate of emigrants in 1918 from St. Petersburg. Martti's mission is to restore the buildings of the estate and thereby resurrect the memory of his grandfather. Martti's young daughter Anna decides to make a film about it.
The One I love…
9
Anna Berger
Finland, Russia, 2022
88 min
Russian, Finnish
Russian, English
On the one hand, this is a monologue of one Chukchi, and on the other, a whole people. A monologue about life, about the Motherland, about what makes the Chukchi break away from their roots. This film is a possible projection of our future. Because many of us, choosing the blessings of civilization, risk losing ourselves. How to get out of the "blizzard"? It seems the Chukchi know the answer.
Isolated
8
Vladimir Krivov
Russia, 2022
64 min
Russian
English
The film was conceived for the anniversary of the great actress. For almost sixty years she has been serving the theater, cinema and poetry. An important part of it is the change of times and even eras: war (childhood), thaw (youth), sixties (youth), stagnation, perestroika, nineties and the millennium. In the finale of the film, her last main role to date is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Anatoly Vasiliev. The words "And who defeated you? No one. I just went too far into the sea" are a philosophical understanding of this long, long road of man to the realization of his destiny.
Who defeated you no one
9
Lyubov Arcus
Russia, 2021
132 min
Russian
What is a war in the Far North and how can military operations be carried out among ice, rocks and bad weather? Many facts of the Great Patriotic War in the Arctic were hushed up for long Soviet years, there were too many losses and shortcomings. Admiral of the Northern Fleet, 34-year-old Arseniy Golovko, describes in detail the ups and downs of the beginning of the war in his diaries, which are now being restored for publication by his son Mikhail, who served in the Navy.
Ice-free port of hope
8
Darya Khrenova
Russia, 2022
78 min
Russian
An unflinching portrayal of families divided by war. The film features seven different pairings, whose members speak periodically with Loshak, one-to-one, to explain their points of view. Their conversations extend over the war's first three months, during which time their opinions evidence no change. The director makes no attempt at establishing dialogue – on the contrary, it is a testimony to the absence of dialogue amidst an unfolding war, and an unsentimental diagnosis of the sickness of a society in which official propaganda proves stronger than even the most intimate family ties.
Broken Ties
8
Andrey Loshak
Czechia, Georgia, 2022
98 min
Russian
English
This is the story of a man who made the history of Mankind, being "on the other side of the window" from those in power. The film was based on Boris Altshuler's book "Sakharov and Power. On the other side of the window"; drawings by Andrey Sakharov animated by Dmitry Geller; memories of friends; rare archival footage and previously unpublished declassified documents.
Andrei Sakharov. On the other side of the window
9
Dmitriy Zavilgelsky
Russia, Israel, 2021
72 min
Russian
English
The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.
God from the machine
8
Rodion Chepel
Russia, 2021
87 min
Russian
Against the backdrop of the popular topic of "chipping" and people's fears of becoming controlled by artificial intelligence, the authors of the film find dramatic stories where the "chip in the head" is a vital necessity. What are the scientific discoveries of the last decades leading to, is it possible to control people with the help of such technologies, and what neuroethical questions arise in connection with their use?
Chip inside me
8
Yuliya Kiseleva
Russia, 2022
61 min
Russian, English
Russian, English

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