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Laurel Prize-2023 nominees (longlist)
Laurel Prize-2023 nominees (longlist)
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movies
Lavr
Lavr
October 26, 2023
In 2023, the National Laurel Branch Award decided to suspend the competition in all traditional nominations. A single nomination “Cinema of the Future” was introduced, which considers the first films of young authors. 191 works were submitted for the competition in 2023. On October 24, a meeting of the jury of the first round took place, consisting of documentarians Marina Razbezhkina, Evgenia Ostanina, Victoria Belopolskaya, Andrei Gryazev, Alina Rudnitskaya, Denis Shabaev, Vitaly Mansky. Following the jury meeting, eight films were selected for the next stage of grand jury voting. The three finalists will be announced in early December.
Once in India, Zakhara from St. Petersburg could not forget about the war in Ukraine. Her desire to go to the front, even as a volunteer, does not meet with understanding either from her girlfriend, or from relatives, or from friends.
Country Abortion
7
Zoya Vodyanova
Russia, Czech Republic, 2023
24 min
Russian
A young soldier returns from the front line with a serious wound. How will he build his new life?
Brave New World
7
Ivan Vlasov
Russia, 2023
35 min
Russian
Two family at the table decide should love, whom and how.
Love is such a thing
7
Daniil Tarasenko
Russia, 2023
30 min
Russian
Father and son organize a children's film festival in the village. Each of them is making their own film for the festival. Camera – mobile phone. Tripod - shovel. The actors are the children and grandchildren of the main characters. Filming turns into a real test for both directors and actors. A documentary comedy about a father, son and a large family who live happily in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.
Fathers
7
Yuri Mokienko
Russia, 2023
66 min
Russian
English
In Chukotka, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, people live, cut off from the whole world. Their life revolves around hunting walruses and whales and protecting villages from bears coming from the tundra. This turns the film into a meditation on death. Marine animals are the main source of food for humans; skins and offal are used to feed arctic foxes on a fur farm; human cemeteries become food for bears. All inhabitants of these places are involved in the cycle of food and death. The film departs from the usual rhythmic structure of cinema, being built on the principle of a shamanic ritual, a meaning-forming event for the northern peoples.
Piblokto
7
Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin
Russia, 2023
38 min
Russian
Russian
Black and white drama about youth in Moscow. The guys organize concerts in abandoned buildings, hold illegal boxing fights, go to nature and still don’t know how this summer will end during the war.
Last summer
7
Vitaliy Akimov
Russia, France, 2023
80 min
Russian
English
Zhenya Myshkin is almost an ordinary teenager. He lives in Kamchatka with his sister Oksana in the family of his adoptive mother and her son Arthur. Summer is in full swing, life seems endless, but autumn is ahead, and with it a trip to a correctional boarding school, which should become a new home for Zhenya.
Clouds are like people
7
Evgenia Leushkina
Russia, 2023
40 min
Russian
English
The Tent Circus "Frankoni" has been touring the cities of the Rostov region for many years. The noise of military aircraft flying over Rostov-on-Don is heard, and military trucks drive along the roads of the region. A circus is a single organism in which each of the workers, although they have their own history, their own view of the world, but they are all closely intertwined with each other. Uniformist Dair will receive a summons any day now and is ready to go to the front line. But no one can know their future.
Circus
7
Yana Reinson
Russia, 2023
67 min
Russian

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