shnit Worldwide Short film festival in Moscow
The shnit Worldwide Short film festival is an international short film festival with a 16-year history, and takes place in seven countries on four continents. The opening is on October 17, at Illusion Cinema (1/15 Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya), and the festival films will be screened at Moskino network theatres, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (9/32 Krimsky Val), and Museum of Cinema (VDNH, Pavilion No.36, 119 Prospekt Mira).
The festival programme includes both a national and international competition. This year’s non-competitive programme will include two short film collections: shnit Comedy (short comedies from around the world), and Playground Winners 2017 (winning films from national competitions in eight shnit-hosting countries)
This year’s festival theme is 'Going Wild’. Over 3,000 applications were submitted for the international competition by young film directors from 136 countries. The programme includes a wide variety of genres, from black comedy, such as the South-African Good Mourning or Belgian’s Palookaville, to serious drama, such as the Turkish Kismet or the animated film Negative Space, which has been nominated for a 2018 Oskar. The Russian film in the international competition is a grotesque comedy by Ruslan Bratov, Lalai-Balalai. The winners of the four categories in the international competition will be announced in New York on October 28. The total prize fund for the festival is USD 20,000.
This year’s national competition ‘shnit Made in Russia’ attracted over 250 entries, and the jury selected 21 films to make up four collections. All the films will be screened with the participation of the filmmakers. The winners will be announced on October 21, with the selection being made by the Moscow jury headed by screenwriter Nikolay Kulikov along with a viewers’ vote.
Films from the international competition are being shown in their original language with Russian subtitles, and Russian films are shown with English subtitles.
See also: shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival programme in Russian.
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