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Laurel Prize-2022 nominees
Laurel Prize-2022 nominees
40
movies
Lavr
Lavr
October 10, 2022
The first round of the annual National Laurel Branch Award has been completed. The jury consisting of documentary filmmakers Viсtoria Belopolskaya, Svetlana Bychenko, Irina Vasilyeva, Alina Rudnitskaya, Ksenia Shergova, Elena Laskari, Vitaly Mansky and Alexei Khanyutin watched 327 films submitted for the competition. Eight films were determined in five categories. These films go to the next round of the competition.
Mila Anufrieva was a style icon, a powerful businesswoman who wasn't afraid to take off her rose-colored glasses and look at the real world. The strange Russian with dark glasses is well known in Dakar and throughout Senegal, many even call her the “albino angel”. Every day she saves children from prostitution and slavery, from self-mutilation by order of local shamans. In African countries, there is a belief that the blood of albinos has healing powers. Albinos are hunted, mutilated, and body parts are sold in local markets as medicine.
Mila's Angels
7
Maria Katsal
Russia, 2021
63 min
Russian
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
Zhenya is the head of the weather station, Vanya is a junior meteorologist and household assistant. The ship "Mikhail Somov" comes to the Kanin Peninsula once a year, delivers food and then the protagonists are left alone until next spring. One day a storm comes to them and the protagonists are left without communication, alone, alone with bad weather and each other for 3 long days.
Zhenya and Vanya at the end of the world
7
Anna Katorina
Russia, 2022
46 min
Russian
Russian, English
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
A story about the inhabitants of the Buryat village of Moigoty, of which there are only six left, living for more than twenty years outside of civilization without light and electricity. Being forgotten by the authorities, they do not want to go anywhere, they are building a hotel in the hope that tourists will come to them, and they are waiting for electricity and electricity to be brought to them.
How people live
7
Pavel Skorobogatov
Russia, 2022
60 min
Russian
English
Felix and Antonina are a family of Karelian fishermen. In the early 2000s, Felix was injured and almost stopped walking. Antonina finds the strength to support her husband and continues to run the household. A film about devotion, love, hard life in a modern village.
Short summers, long winters
7
Galina Leontyeva
Russia, 2022
42 min
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
Have we transferred from the past, from the 30-50s of the Soviet period, the features, behavior, character, habits and values of that time? Has the lived period changed our cultural identity?
Moon phase
7
Andrey Osipov
Russia, 2022
60 min
Russian
Three years before the start of the «special operation» the orthodox priests were focused on the servicemen. In the sermons they were glorifying the President and so-called traditional values, talking about immortality of the soul and Kingdom of Heaven. What actually was an aim of that powerful campaign – to prepare Russian soldiers for sacrifice or… contingent for slaughter? It seems the third option was not considered.
Jumping-off place
8
Svetlana Stasenko
Russia, 2021
36 min
Russian
English
Documentary animation about the fears of motherhood. A film about the most sincere love, maternal. A little girl wakes up in the middle of a watermelon. She hears voices from the watermelons. These are the stories of women, their fears.
Watermelon Seed
7
Elena Kabanova
Russia, 2021
32 min
Russian
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
In a lost village so isolated that it is not on the map of Russia, Sysoi passes on the tradition of Byzantine singing to his son Ivan. Their reclusive family life is filled with self-sustainment and a rigorous spiritual practice that seems to be dedicated to preparing the teenager for the only path in life.
Ivan’s Ladder
7
Nikolay Bem
Russia, 2022
61 min
Russian
English, French
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
The film touches upon the deep meanings of being, faith, hope and love. This is a large-scale story about the life of the Solovetsky monastery. What is the spiritual life of man? What is a religious tradition and how is it reflected in the modern world? How does faith in God affect people's lives? The Solovetsky Islands are a key point in the spiritual geography of Russia. These places are marked by spiritual, historical, cultural events that have left a deep mark in history and in people's memory. Located on the far outskirts of Russia, the archipelago has become one of the most powerful symbols of the Russian spirit.
Holy Archipelago
7
Sergey Debizhev
Russia, 2022
98 min
Russian
English
In 2018, the Moscow-based Gazagrokhim company applied for cooperation at the Research Institute of Agriculture in Suzdal. Businessmen lease most of the institute's fields and begin large-scale work to create a selection and seed center there.
Thin Fields
7
Dmitriy Lukyanov
Russia, 2022
78 min
Russian
English
In Russia, since 2017, 35 criminal cases have been opened against teenagers on charges of preparing mass murders, terrorist attacks or extremist actions. All these cases are distinguished by the fact that there are no victims in them, only statements by the investigation that the schoolchildren planned to do something. The accusation is based on drawings, correspondence on the Internet and photographs. 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov was arrested for five years on charges of terrorism. He and his friends put up leaflets demanding the release of anarchist political prisoners. Schoolchildren built a copy of their city in Minecraft and joked in the general chat about the explosion of the FSB building. Not a real explosion, but a computer one. For drawing a plan to capture the barracks, 18-year-old cadet Vadim Osipov was accused of terrorism and, by a court decision, was sent for compulsory treatment. The editors of the student magazine DOXA were sentenced to two years of hard labor for a video about pressure from university professors on students who participated in rallies. Agora lawyers undertake to protect teenagers.
Lawyers: Non-Childish Cases
7
Masha Novikova
USA, 2022
54 min
Russian
A film-portrait of the outstanding conductor Vladimir Yurovsky, who led the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the E. Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra for many years. Now Yurovsky is the general musical director of the Bavarian State Opera and the artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. A man of the world, open to different cultures, but missing the Moscow winter.
Vladimir Yurovsky. Longing for winter
7
Elena Laskari
Russia, 2022
52 min
Russian
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
Mikhail Savelyevich Shaprov (aka the gypsy Shapiro) lived not one, but three lives. Revolutionary romantic and diplomat; "enemy of the people" and political prisoner; a documentary filmmaker who reveals to people all the most important things in this world. The story of Mikhail Shaprov is told by his grandson, director and screenwriter Andrey Raikin.
My grandfather is a gypsy Shapiro
7
Igor Kholodkov
Russia, 2021
59 min
Russian
Jews were called "the main secret of the Soviet Union." For seventy years they existed in the zone of silence, but this silence attracted a burning and constant interest. Some were sure that the Jews had penetrated everywhere, up to the top of the Soviet power, and ruled the entire USSR. Others looked for Jewish allusions in popular books, songs, films. Still others saw Jewish secret signs everywhere and everywhere. Where are the real facts, and where is the fruit of a sick imagination? And the very phenomenon of the Soviet Jew is also not a very clear thing. How did he remain a Jew, not retaining for the most part his religion, language, without preserving traditions, and often accepting new traditions with pleasure? Culturologist and journalist Anna Narinskaya, who grew up in a “non-Jewish Jewish family,” speaks to witnesses of the time, her friends and relatives, anthropologists and researchers of popular culture, and seems to be moving towards answering all these questions. But these searches lead her to a very strange place.
Find a Jew
7
Igor Sadreev, Anna Narinskaya
Russia, 2022
77 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
Ural is a forge of world hockey talents. The historical confrontation here is the competition between the two main teams of the Chelyabinsk region, Traktor and Metallurg. The film tells about the Ural derby from an unusual angle, through the prism of two children's hockey teams, between which year after year there is a struggle for the title of the winner.
The Ural Derby
7
Arseniy Kaydatsky, Yuliya Sergina
Russia, 2022
88 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, 2021
72 min
Russian
English
Is aging a normal inevitable process or is it a disease? Can it be treated? According to the international classification of diseases, aging is a clinical syndrome with the number R54. Will we learn to treat old age at least in 20 years? 30? In order to "heal" ourselves.
Immortals
7
Yulia Melamed
Russia, 2022
48 min
Russian
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
The film tells about the life and work of Yevgeny Khaldei, who was the famous Soviet photojournalist. He was born on March 10, 1917 in Yuzovka, now Donetsk. The real name of the photographer is Yefim Khaldei. He was called Evgeny at the TASS agency, where he began his career as a 19-year-old boy. He went through the entire Great Patriotic War from Murmansk to Berlin with the legendary Leica camera in his hands. He was fired from TASS in 1948 on the grounds of “the fifth paragraph”. He worked in obscurity, so that that time would not be forgotten. And it seems that he forgave the time everything, the murder of his parents, humiliation and indifference.
Inside the photograph
7
Taisiya Nikitina
Russia, 2022
58 min
Russian
English
The film tells about one of the most familiar to man and at the same time the most amazing substances of the surrounding world, about air, about its natural properties, about the contradictions and costs of its uncontested "cohabitation" with a person. The basis of the film's narrative will be the monologues of recognized experts in various fields of knowledge and various fields of activity, each of which will characterize the air from their professional point of view.
Life with the invisible
7
Boris Karadzhev, Nastya Kuzyakova
Russia, 2022
44 min
Russian
The film is a journey into childhood, the central image of which is the giant apartment building of the Rossiya Insurance Company in the center of Moscow. Its history and present, stairs, spans, attics, workshops of artists, all this becomes the territory of memories of the childhood of the author and his parents, realized with the help of animation.
How we lived in a communal apartment
7
Pavel Mirzoev
Russia, 2022
43 min
Russian
The world of simultaneous interpreters looks absolutely hermetic, and they themselves are representatives of the “old” cultural elite. It began as almost secret knowledge, Soviet diplomatic staff and brilliantly educated Russian émigrés, forced to earn extra money as taxi drivers, largely created simultaneous translation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since the Nuremberg trials and the first UN meetings, simultaneous translation has been an important part of world diplomacy. But it won't always be like this. Perhaps, even during the lifetime of those who witnessed his birth, simultaneous translation will give way to machine translation.
Come from Babylon
7
Mikhail Orkin
Russia, 2021
81 min
Russian
English
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
What happens in an environment where a 12-year-old boy decides whether to go home to sleep or not.
G 12
7
Egor Skorokhodov
Russia, 2022
72 min
Russian
Friends and relatives call Lydia a woman with an impeccable image. She visits salons, lectures on fashion, carefully selects outfits, and is proud of her pedigree. In public, the woman is smiling and friendly, she reads poetry with her poet husband, talks about high things, but if you look closely, it turns out that everything is far from being so attractive. What kind of person is really under bright hats and what does the approval of the society in which she is worth to a woman?
A woman with an impeccable image
7
Olga Kholodova
Russia, 2022
21 min
Russian
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
An extravagant singer and showman is trying to become a star, create a show on a federal channel and avoid a divorce from his wife. But something always goes wrong.
Singer
7
Dmitry Gulyaev
Russia, 2022
35 min
Rossiy
Darina is a twelve-year-old girl whose life has recently changed dramatically. After a difficult divorce, the mother moves to her hometown with her daughter. Darina has to start a new life in a new place.
Moving
7
Maxim Vakhrushev
Russia, 2022
26 min
Russian
This film tells about Ruslan Nikolaevich Stupnikov, the head of the Kalinka children's film studio, which existed in the city of Kashin from 1982 to 2011. The studio was founded in 1982, where more than three thousand children studied at different times. Being the permanent head of the studio, he made films together with children and youth, which reflected various events in the city and the region.
Huhry-Mukhry!
7
Konstantin Pessyanikov
Russia, 2022
34 min
Russian
Russian

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