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SHORT FILM
Fiction | 22′ | Russia, Finland | 2020

 

Paulina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern border town. Together with her friend Nadia they dream of a different, heavenly and exotic world. One day, a stranger comes to the hotel.

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CAST
Elizaveta Yankovskaya
Daria Mureeva
Stephen Thomas Ochsner

 

CREW
Director & writer: Zhenia Kazankina
Cinematography: Luda Kuropiatnikova
Production design: Alyona Nebroeva
Costume design: Goar Igityan
Sound design: Pavel Ambarnov
Music: Monika Mia

 

AWARDS

ZINEBI Film Festival — Mikeldi Award for Best Fiction Short Film

Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival — Best International Film

Sehsüchte Film Festival — Best Youth Film

Nashville Film Festival — Best NextGen Film

Orvieto Cinema Fest — Best International Short Film

Shnit.Russia — Special Jury Mention

Cellu l’art Short Film Festival Jena — Best Short Film

Short Focus Film Festival — Gold Frame & Audience Award

 

FESTIVALS 

Palm Springs International ShortFest

TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival

Curtas Vila do Conde

Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

Poitiers Film Festival

London Short Film Festival Mecal Barcelona

FILMFEST DRESDEN

Zlin Film Festival

MalatestaShort Film Festival

Denver Film Festival

EUREKA University Film Festival

Visioni Corte Film Festival

FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH

Scanorama

Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival

Diorama International Film Festival

Euroshorts International Film Festival

Kustendorf Film Festival

BuSho Film Festival

Cinemagic ‘On the Pulse’ Online Film Festival

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival

International Kansk Video Festival

‘Spirit of Fire’ Film Festival

 

AVAILABLE ON

✶ Kinoscope

✶ Director’s Notes
✶ NoBudge
✶ Girls in Film
✶ Shortverse

 

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