The III International Film Festival for Children and Youth “Hero”: shortlist has been announced

A little less than a month before the opening of the III International Film Festival for Children and Youth “Hero”.  100 films from 28 countries, including 52 premieres, passed an expert selection and became participants in the competitive and non-competitive programs of the film festival, which will be held in the Krasnoyarsk Territory from May 20 to 24, 2024. The official competition shortlist included 58 of the best feature, animated and documentary films. The main program of the show will be presented by 22 countries: Argentina, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Spain, Canada, China, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, USA, France, Croatia, Switzerland, Sweden.

The authors will present most of their full-length works in person; screenings will take place in Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Zelenogorsk, Nazarovo and Balakhta. Entry to all film festival events is free.

The festival is held with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, organized by “Enisey Kino”. 

Film Festival shortlist:

Feature-length film 

1. Suvorovets 1944 (dir. Denis Kazantsev, Russia, 2024, 90 min., 6+)
2. The Zoo (dir. Manish Tiwary, India, 2023, 115 min., 6+)
3. Ivan Semenov the Troublemaker (dir. Anton Bogdanov, Russia, 2022, 122 min., 6+)
4. The Art Class (dir. Zhonghua Zhang, China, 2023, 93 min., 12+)
5. Between The Cliffs (dir. Mokhtar Abdollahi, Iran, 2022, 81 min., 12+)
6. Diary of Paulina P. (dir. Neven Hitrek, Croatia, 2023, 96 min., 6+)
   
   

Full-length animated film 

1. Almandar (dir. Sergey Kiatrov, Russia, 2023, 68 min., 6+)
2. Pushkin and... Mikhailovskoye. Beginning (dir. Ekaterina Gavryushkina, Russia, 2023, 63 min., 6+)
3. How to save the Immortal (dir. Roman Artemyev, Russia, 2022, 76 min., 6+)
4. The Snow Queen & The Princess (dir. Dmitry Sokolov, Alexey Tsitsilin, Russia, 2022, 75 min., 6+)
5. Detective Chirp & the Golden Beehive (dir. Grigory Vozhakin, Russia, 2022, 85 min., 6+)
6. Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf 5 (dir. Konstantin Feoktistov, Russia, 2022, 77 min., 6+)

Feature short film 

1. The Knight Of The Nettle (dir. Roman Baranov, Russia, 2023, 22 min., 12+)
2. Mellow Fegatello (dir. Irina Borovskaya, Russia, 2022, 26 min., 6+)
3. You smell like pilaf (dir. Margarita Kharkovskaya, Russia, 2023, 26 min., 12+)
4. Cloak of Honors, The tale of the boy and the old men (dir. Rui Falcão, Portugal, 2023, 21 min., 6+)
5. Soffia (Blow) (dir. Lorenzo Fedon, Switzerland, 2023, 11 min., 12+)
6. Donkey (dir. Jessica Johansson, Sweden, 2023, 14 min., 0+)
7. Why Do We Sign? (dir. Rosella Fragoso, Argentina, 2023, 13 min., 6+)
8. The Wake Up Chirp (dir. Kaan Orgunmat, Sweden, 2023, 14 min., 0+)
9. Luca's Resilience (dir. Moreno Koning, Netherlands, 2024, 22 min., 0+)
10. Between The Words (dir. Farid Ismail, Luxembourg, 2022, 15 min., 0+)
11. The night is young… (dir. Yuliana Grimuta, Russia, 2023, 24 min., 0+)

Animated short film 

1. Socks for the Star (dir. Olga Titova, Russia, 2022, 9 min., 6+)
2. The 9th Continent (dir. Mostafa Borzouyan Dastjerdi, Iran, 2023, 6 min., 6+)
3. Nube (dir. Mostafa Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, Christian Arredondo Narvaez, Mexico, 2023, 8 min., 0+)
4. A Story of Life (dir. Lukas Eichenauer, Germany, 2023, 6 min., 0+)
5. Head in the Clouds (dir. Kaylee Tan, United States, 2023, 2 min., 0+)
6. Winter Night Dream (dir. Elena Petkevich, Belarus, 2022, 26 min., 6+)
7. Love and motorcycles (dir. Elena Lapshina, Russia, 2022, 10 min., 12+)
8. A White-white day (dir. Vasily Chirkov, Russia, France, Canada, 2022, 6 min., 6+)
9. Supertramp (dir. Fabrizio Gammardella, United Kingdom, 2024, 7 min., 0+)
10. Pirate and a Cello (dir. Andrei Sokolov, Russia, 2023, 14 min., 12+)
11. Bahr (dir. Belal Abosamra, Egypt, 2023, 8 min., 12+)
12. Goodbye, people (dir. Anna Klimanova, Russia, 2022, 4 min., 12+)
13. 1996 (dir. Ramon Mascaros, Spain, 2022, 8 min., 6+)
14. The Encounter (dir. Aleksandra Krivolutskaia, Russia, 2022, 6 min., 0+)
15. Wild Housemates (dir. Armelle Mercat-Junot, France, 2022, 15 min., 12+)

documentary film 

1. Kick it out, Girl (dir. Konstantin Raich, Russia, 2023, 52 min., 12+)
2. Let me win (dir. Maria Finkelshtein, Svetlana Muzychenko, Russia, 2023, 69 min., 12+)
3. When Spring Comes (dir. Yulia Klimenko, Russia, 2023, 61 min., 16+)
4. A Medic (dir. Alizhan Nasirov, Kyrgyzstan, 2023, 24 min., 6+)
5. An Oath (dir. Nanu Tlisov, Russia, 2022, 24 min., 12+)
6. 90 Years Young (dir. Athithya Kanagarajan, India, 2022, 15 min., 6+)
7. Violet Country (dir. Mikhail Gorobchuk, Russia, 2023, 17 min., 6+)
8. Echoes From The Blue Meadow (dir. Héctor Hernández, Mexico, 2023, 11 min., 12+)
9. Munigarin (dir. Bentang Alif, Indonesia, 2023, 12 min., 12+)
10. The Village Lights. Yuri Makeev. Petrovka Village Theatre (dir. Yaroslav Lebedev, Russia, 2023, 26 min., 16+)

Special children's nomination “Who is your hero?”:

1. Forever Beside (dir. Maxim Storozhenko, Russia, 2023, 10 min., 6+)
2. Fracture (dir. Spartak Sorokin, Russia, 2023, 17 min., 6+)
3. Hero (dir. Amira Ryazapova, Russia, 2023, 8 min., 0+)
4. Three Not (dir. Adelia Lange, Anastasia Rotova, Russia, 2023, 9 min., 0+)
5. Head in the clouds (dir. Elizaveta Churekova, Russia, 2023, 13 min., 12+)
6. Papier-mâché (dir. Tatyana Lunina, Russia, 2023, 5 min., 0+)
7. The slough (dir. Egor Ivankin, Russia, 2023, 9 min., 12+)
8. CHADsky in red (dir. Daria Sergienko, Russia, 2023, 7 min., 6+)
9. Sisters (dir. Svetlana Mukhina, Russia, 2023, 13 min., 6+)
10. Pechkin. Pedals of Courage (dir. Alexey Gorbenko, Russia, 2022, 7 min., 0+)

Out of competition Full-length feature films: 

1. The gift (dir. Dalmira Tilepbergen, Russia, 2023, 88 min., 18+)
2. Jane Not Sane (dir. Ivan Kapitonov, Russia, 2023, 115 min., 16+)
3. The Rebels (dir. Vladimir Alenikov, Russia, 2024, 121 min., 12+)

Out of competition Short feature films: 

1. Not my name (dir. Juan Paulo Laserna, Colombia, 2023, 19 min., 12+)
2. My teacher (dir. Antonina Abramova, Russia, 2023, 30 min., 12+)
3. White Lines (dir. Jalal Saedpanah, USA, Iran, 2023, 14 min., 12+)
4. Wheels (dir. Dmitry Kondratenko, Russia, 2023, 10 min., 12+)
5. Anger (dir. Mikhail Serebrenikov, Russia, 2019, 10 min., 12+)
6. About friendship and bicycles (dir. Julia Vidal, Brazil, 2022, 12 min., 6+)
7. White white snow (dir. Vilyura Isyandavletova, Russia, 2022, 35 min., 6+)
8. See you at the glade! (dir. Yana Ksenina, Russia, 2023, 24 min., 0+)
9. The Test (dir. Mikhail Anisimov, Russia, 2023, 27 min., 6+)

Out of competition Short animation films: 

1. Apple pie (dir. Sergey Merinov, Alexey Alekseev, Russia, 2021, 9 min., 0+)
2. Escape Velocity (dir. Svetlana Zhukova, Russia, 2023, 6 min., 0+)
3. Worry (dir. Bingqi Liu, UK, 2023, 3 min., 6+)
4. Penguins (dir. Anastasia Sokolova, Russia, 2022, 5 min., 6+)
5. Raindrop legs (dir. Daria Bolotnikova, Russia, 2022, 2 min., 0+)
6. Bench (dir. Vera Pavlova, Russia, 2022, 3 min., 6+)
7. Mouse House (dir. Timon Leder, Slovenia, 2022, 9 min., 6+)
8. WitchFairy (dir. Cedric Igodt, David Van de Weyer, Belgium, 2022, 15 min., 0+)

Out of competition Documentary films: 

1. The Savior Hand of the Lord (dir. Babek Abbaszadeh, Azerbaijan, 2023, 41 min., 6+)
2. Lewis Carroll's adventure through the russian looking-glass (dir. Tatyana Soboleva, Russia, 2023, 64 min., 12+)
3. The Olympic Streets (dir. Dmitry Kvashnin, Russia, 2022, 30 min., 6+)
4. The Wall (dir. Evrim Inci, Türkiye, 2023, 19 min., 6+)
5. Go and do it (dir. Alexandra Barkhatova, Russia, 2023, 6 min., 12+)

Special program for the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.P. Astafiev

1. At the Astafievsky springs (dir. Kristina Pyrkh, Russia, 2011, 22 min., 6+)
2. The endless cross (dir. Vladimir Kuznetsov, Russia, 2023, 34 min., 12+)
3. Interview with V.P. Astafiev (dir. Evgeny Medvedev, Russia, 2000, 23 min., 12+)
4. No seagulls flew here (dir. Bulat Mansurov, USSR, 1978, 97 min., 12+)

Special program for the 100th anniversary of Belarusian cinema

1. City of Masters (dir. Vladimir Bychkov, USSR, 1965, 84 min., 0+)
2. The Adventures of Pinocchio (dir. Leonid Nechaev, USSR, 1975, 130 min., 0+)
3. Filmmakers (dir. Kirill Khaletsky, Belarus, 2023, 85 min., 0+)
4. Yurka – the commander’s son (dir. Nikolai Lukyanov, USSR, 1984, 79 min., 6+)
5. Children's album (dir. I. Margolina, E. Petkevich, N. Rys, O. Cherkasova, A. Lenkin, V. Sidorenko, I. Volchek, E. Nadtochey, Belarus, 2020, 52 min., 6+)
6. Toshka and the computer monster! Part 3 (dir. Alexander Lenkin, Belarus, 2019, 13 min., 0+)
7. Toshka and his friends. There is contact! Part 4 (dir. Alexander Lenkin, Belarus, 2021, 13 min., 0+)
8. Toshka and his friends. Augmented Reality. Reboot. Part 5. (dir. Alexander Lenkin, Belarus, 2023, 13 min., 0+)
9. Prelude and Fugue (dir. Igor Volchek, Belarus, 2021, 13 min., 12+)
10. The Magic Book (dir. Tatyana Kublitskaya, Belarus, 2021, 13 min., 6+)

Special program of films on film from the «Enisey Kino» film fund

1. Attention, turtle! (dir. Rolan Bykov, USSR, 1969, 83 min., 0+)
2. Aibolit-66 (dir. Rolan Bykov, USSR, 1966, 100 min., 0+)
3. Welcome, or no entry to outsiders (dir. Elem Klimov, USSR, 1964, 74 min., 0+)