Finalists 2023

124 films have been selected for the competition program of the XIII International Youth Film Festival «Light to the World»!

Category «Youth» authors 18-35 years old: 71 films

Feature film Russia (short meter)

1. A package of tangerines (Daria Firsova. VGIK named after S. A. Gerasimov)
2. The neighbor (Denis Buzin)
3. Gifts of the Magi (Yaroslav Khudyakov)
4. The imperfect form of the verb (Vika Adulyar)
5. Pererug (Mikhail Boreisha)
6. Three days and one reason (Polina and Sofia Naboka)
7. The Life of Ivan Ilyich (Sergey Khvostovtsev)
8. American (Oksana Nechaeva)
9. From one Hare (Gleb Kuchinsky)
10. Simple difficulties (Alexandra Selezneva)

 

Foreign feature film (short meter)

1. Days of Doubt (Dilshod Avazov, Tajikistan)
2. The Warrior (Amanbek Azhymat, Kyrgyzstan)
3. Khan-Atlas Legend (Ekaterina Saunina, Uzbekistan)
4. Suborbital (Timothy Sos, Romania)
5. Remember our Sister (Hayeon Jo, Korea)
6. La guerra di Valeria (La guerra di Valeria, Italy)
7. Toads and Diamonds (Pablo Arguello, USA)
8. Fair play (Zel Eschbacher, Switzerland – France)
9. Earth (Umarjon Zhumaev, Aliman Toktogulova, Kyrgyzstan)
10. Between Words (Farid Ismail, France – Luxembourg)

 

Feature film (full meter)

1. Save yourself who can (Anastasia Novoselova, Russia)
2. Ivan Semenov — school commotion! (Anton Bogdanov, Russia)
3. Artek. The Big Journey (Karen Zakharov, Armen Ananikyan, Russia)
4. Gold bronze (Igor Kopylov, Russia)
5. Treasures of the Partisan forest (Yuri Ilyin, Russia)

 

Musical and experimental film

1. Miss Grey (Julbars Art Film, Russia)
2. Appetite (Lina Maria Rivera, Colombia)
3. Re-connection (Julie Boehm, Germany)
4. MARTILANDRÁN (INMACULADA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, Spain)
5. Pure imagination (Andro Abd El Malek, France)
6. My Family (Melodi Tözüm, Turkey)
7. Babushkino jam (Media BMSTU, Russia)
8. Namalevich (Lendok Film School, Russia)

 

Social Film

1. Not disabled (Shamil Agaev, Russia)
2. In a boat (Ksenia Roganova, Russia)
3. JIWE (STEVEN LINO, Tanzania)
4. Sur le Trottoir (Yasin Azduh, Morocco)
5. Long live (Azam Shahdust, Iran)
6. Enjoy the show (Enes Çelik, Turkey)
7. Be yourself (GUL YILDIRIM, Turkey)
8. Kite (Mohamadnabi Talebi, Iran)
9. Katvoman (HADI SHEIBANI, Iran)

 

Animation

1. Winter Evening (A-film Studio LLC, Russia)
2. Lucy (Studio «Window», Russia)
3. Courier (Animos LLC, Russia)
4. Ant March (SHAR Studio, Russia)
5. Kyshtovsky Yeti (Inga Morozova, Russia)
6. Birds, by the way (Alla Vartanyan, Russia)
7. White-white day (Vasily Chirkov, Russia)
8. How to Save Fireflies (Zaldua Janne Yleona Llagas, Analicia Catherine, Singapore)

 

Non — fiction film

1. Other Worlds child (Natalia Tetenkina, Russia)
2. Hospital clown (Angelina Podorozhnaya, Russia)
3. Oh, you horses… (Alexey Kuptsov, Russia)
4. The Boys of Vasily the Great (JSC «TPO «St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio», Russia)
5. Chaika (Arman Ayvazyan, S. A. Gerasimov VGIK, Russia)
6. Santi (Mario Capetillo Torres, Argentina)
7. Women of the Wild (Molly Ferrill, Jay Callahan, USA)
8. Malevich. Beyond Zero (Ivan Baturin, Russia)
9. Cyborgs with Limitless Possibilities (Romana Kirshak, Russia)
10. Basic Threads (Studio CENTER Film Company, Russia)

 

TV show, report

1. Red Cross: the gene of humanity (Viktor Derr, Russia)
2. The Perfect World of Mikhail Lomonosov (Elena Matveeva, Russia)
3. Noor-e-Mayoor (Abhimanyu Kanodia, India)
4. Anna Ardova. Small Plays (Arina Proshina, Russia)

 

Nomination «Light to the world»

1. Who lives well in Russia? (Daria Rozhok, Russia)
2. Human Struggle: Boris Korchevnikov (Diana Borisova, Russia)
3. Skit (Inga Sharshova, Alexey Sharshov, Russia)
4. Monk (Anton Efimenko, Belarus)
5. Fire (Studio «Point Of View», Russia)

 

 

Category «Adults for children» authors without age restriction: 53 films

Feature film (short meter)

1. On a dream! (Margarita Kharkiv, S. A. Gerasimov VGIK, Russia)
2. The Sambo wrestler gene (Vasily Kinyakhin, Russia)
3. I want to go there (Natalia Omelchenko, Russia)
4. About people and about the war. Series «Yama», «Our», «Cook» (Dmitry Pasichnyuk, Roman Boyko, Andrey Krasavin, Russia)
5. Figures (Maria Morozova, Russia)
6. Mattress (Arash Hassanpour, Iran)
7. Pompon (David Hurregu, France)
8. Hero (Sergei Zhdanovich, Sincerely, Director, Producer Solomon Films Production, Inc. Sergei Zhdanovich, USA)
9. Cemetery of Cars (MIGUEL ÁNGEL OLIVARES, Spain)
10. Leningrad lilac (Natalia Kungurova, Russia)

 

Non — fiction film

1. «Smoking. A look from the inside» (All-Russian public organization «Common Cause»Yu Russia)
2. Facets of Good (Far Eastern Film Studio LLC, Russia)
3. The project «Literary change» episode I. Turgenev, episode A. Fet (A-3 STUDIO, Russia)
4. Who will be the champion? (Arina Proshina, Russia)

 

Animation Russia

1. Wonderful paws (Animation Studio «Pilot» by Alexander Tatarsky)
2. The tale of two mice (Studio «Wave»)
3. Chirk Sparrow (Pyotr Zakrevsky, A-film Studio LLC)
4. Strela (Grigory Malyshev, Ural-Cinema Studio LLC)
5. Steps (SHAR Studio)
6. Bye-bye (Victoria Spiryagina)
7. Wings for a friend (Mikhail Aldashin, Konstantin Arefyev, Soyuzmultfilm)
8. After us (Sergey Strusovsky)
9. Apple pie (Sergey Mernov, Alexey Alekseev)
10. Socks for the star (Olga Titova)

 

Animation foreign film

1. Seeding cycle (Francesca Antoinette Rodríguez Reyes, Peru)
2. Star Captains (Dimitar Venelinov Velev, Bulgaria)
3. Sincerity (DADA GAUGUIN, Japan)
4. Hello (Narges Mohammadi, Hajar Mekhrani, Netherlands)
5. The Magic Book (Tatiana Kublitskaya, Belarus)
6. Lullaby (Leonard Manevich, USA)
7. Meow (Rodrigo Lobato Toporov)

 

A game film in which children play (short meter)

1. ZOMBIE Camp (Tatiana Miroshnik, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)
2. Listen to your Heart (Oleg Zakharov, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)
3. Another Life (Vadim Burmistrov, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)
4. The Clock (Alexandra Selezneva, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)
5. Fee (Nikolay Novozhilov, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)
6. Hear Me (Varvara Turchenko, Egor Dekhtyarenko, Anatoly Voropayev Production Company, Russia)
7. Girls (Sofia Bakhmatkova, Egor Dekhtyarenko, Tamara Mikryukova, Ekaterina Tokareva, Margarita Khudyakova «Anatoly Voropayev Production Company», Russia)
8. Podorozhniki (ART Personality Film Camp, Russia)
9. Lost and Found (LisArt Children’s Cinema Center, Russia)

 

A game film in which children play (full meter)

1. The Kingdom of Lost languages (ANO «Film Studio of Children’s and Youth creativity «Kucha Mala!», Russia)
2. Eternity, eternity and beyond … (Studio Master, Russia)
3. The heiress. Usolsky Secrets (PR-MEDIA PRODUCTION, Russia)

 

Reportage

1. The world through the eyes of a child — from Totma to Veliky Ustyug (Artem Smirnov, Russia)
2. Ezhovosti News No. 11 (Children’s Video Creation Studio «Two-Frame», Russia)
3. Nature Reserve («SNEG Film Company», Russia)
4. Vladimir, spoon, pharmacy, Eureka! (Theater-Studio of national Art «Carnival Mosaic», Russia)
5. We live on Arkaim (Vyacheslav Alekseenko, Russia)

 

Social Film

1. Like (Vitaly Mamaev, Russia)
2. Let’s hear each other (studio «Window», Russia)
3. Tea (Anton Onasius, Katie Fernando, Sri Lanka)
4. The Dream (Morteza Fadei, Iran)
5. Shoes (Hossein Darabi, Iran)

 

Non-competitive program (includes films that do not fit into the category «adults-children», but correspond to the goals and objectives of the festival) 7 films:

1. the feature film «Anyuta» (Natalia Rudanovskaya, Russia)
2. feature film «Dream» (Vadim Burmistrov, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)
3. Non-fiction film «Moskovsky Srebroust» (Evening Dmitrov TV, OP «Berega», Russia))
4. Non-fiction film «Antarctica. Vostok Station: on the Threshold of the Future» (Anton Melnik and Alexander Melnik, Antarctica))
5. Non-fiction film «To live forever, you need to die» (St. Elizabeth Convent in Minsk, Belarus)
6. Non-fiction film «Andrey Tarkovsky. Non-return of the wind» (LLC «Shemyakin Film Company», Russia)
7. Animated film «The Pirate and the Cello» (Marat Narimanov, Andrey Sokolov, Prorite LLC, Russia)