SHORTLIST OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL «LIGHT TO THE WORLD» 2024

The competition program of the festival included 3,491 films from 121 countries around the globe. The shortlist includes 133 films.

The «Light to the World» category: youth groups and individual authors from 18 to 35 years old.

FEATURE FILM RUSSIA

1. Heavenly Office (Katrina Romanova)

2. Irga (Shabliy Film Studio)

3. Ailments (Matvey Korablev)

4. The last autumn of youth (Nikita Transeev)

5. We grieve (Elizaveta Verkhozina)

6. The psychic (Vladislav Podolyanko)

7. Karma needs to be cleaned… (Sergey Volkov)

8. The Road to Heaven (Ivan Sosnin)

9. Astrakhan (Ovez Narliev, Saule Yusupova Studio: Studio of creative initiatives «Otkritie» LLC)

A FOREIGN FEATURE FILM

1. Father’s Footsteps (Mohamad W. Ali, The Syrian Arab Republic)

2. Allah Mazar (Payam Korkzan, Iran)

3. Amor nour – Muddy love (Victor Herault, France)

4. Things Unheard Of (Ramazan Kilic, Turkey)

5. Don’t worry about me, I’m fine (Reza Pordel, Iran)

6. The Road to Lachin (Edward Ghazaryan, Armenia)

7. Pasando Teruel (Manuel Omonte, Spain)

8. Students (Timur Amanshikov, Uzbekistan)

9. Kid Heart (Meg Igarashi, Japan)

10. The Last Shoemaker (Ali Musoke, Uganda)

VIDEO CLIP

1. Rakita (Anna Zubkova, MGIK, Moscow, Russia)

2. When Are You (Lendok Film School, St. Petersburg, Russia)

3. On Mount Mac (Gravity Dance Studio, Tolyatti, Russia)

4. Song to my Pampa (Diego Alvarez Leon, Chile)

5. Acqua di Luna (Pietro Adorato, Italy)

6. You & I (Lars Smetsers, Netherlands)

7. Journey For Vision (Cancan Chu, China)

8. Raater Aakash (Suranjan Das, India)

SOCIAL FILM

1. Aspiring Filmmaker (Arjanmar H. Rebeta, Philippines)

2. On a Dream (Lolita Naranovich, Russia)

3. Go and Do It (Alexandra Barkhatova, Russia)

4. Save the children! Save nature! (Akram Shakhnazarov. Uzbekistan)

5. Piecing Together Humanity (Mmatshepo Rakhalakane, South Africa)

ANIMATION RUSSIA

1. The Dark Forest (Tatyana Petrova, Studio A-film LLC, Yekaterinburg)

2. The First Space station (Svetlana Zhukova, Ural Cinema Studio LLC, Yekaterinburg)

3. Big (Studio «SHAR» LLC, Moscow)

4. Letter (Anastasia Panteleeva, VGIK, Moscow)

5. Feet of Rain (Daria Bolotnikova)

6. The Goat and the vineyard (Sofiko Badalova)

7. White Willow (Artem Moskalev, Soyuzmultfilm, Moscow)

8. Millions of scarlet roses (Galina Golubeva, Ekaterina Rykova, Anastasia Makhlina, Soyuzmultfilm, Moscow)

FOREIGN ANIMATION

1. Steklishko (Anya Ru, Italy)

2. The adventures of princess Mirabilis (Angélica Pinto,Angola)

3. Alpha Generation (Débora Resendes, Iuri Moreno,Brazil)

4. The Splint (Mehdi Sedighi, Iran)

5. Plain of Yellow Flowers (Hossein Aghamohammadi, Iran)

NON-FICTION FILM RUSSIA

1. In search of the Sun (FLOCK.DOCK, Moscow)

2. The Art of Being Yourself (Wooden Alchid)

3. Found, alive! (Uralfilm Studio LLC, Yekaterinburg)

4. Victor Merezhko. Hello and Goodbye (St. Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television)

5. The Russian Spirit (Ulyana Panchenko, Moscow)

6. Gypsy Dream (VGIK Educational Film Studio, Moscow)

7. We just understood each other (Vladislav Romanenko, Marina Makarova, Rostov on Don)

8. The courier (Artyom Kusyak)

9. The Purple Country (Mikhail Gorobchuk)

NON-FICTION FOREIGN FILM

1. Hard Worker (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Kyrgyzstan)

2. Leonid Shchemelev. All shades of white (Ekaterina Sharomet, Vladimir Bokun Studio, Belarus)

3. The Wall (Evrim Inci, Turkey)

4. Travel: The Future of Kazakh Nomads (Kazuya Isobe, Japan)

5. Romeo (Marina Arzumanova, Armenia)

6. LIXUS (Ziad Idrissi, Morocco)

7. Living a full life (Leila Elhoweris, Croatia)

TV SHOW, REPORTAGE

1. The newsreel «Aloud!». The novel «Conscious Choice» (Artos LLC, Moscow, Russia)

2. Drugs. The history of wrong decisions (Focus Studio, Yekaterinburg, Russia)

3. The Keys to Emotions: Fear and Confidence (Anastasia Makartseva, Moscow, Russia)

4. Where Russia Begins (Institute of Cinema and Television (GITR), Moscow, Russia)

5. Evseev: Recognition at the cost of Life (Andrey Ogorodnikov, Mari El, Russia)

PATRIOTIC FILM

1. To the Front — non-fiction film (Ulyana Gerasimova, Moscow, Russia)

2. Our Heroes – TV program (VGIK, Russia)

3. Ida – feature film (Irsna Media LLC, Moscow, Russia)

4. Russia – video clip (Maxim Polyakov, Skimen-video, Moscow, Russia)

5. A Wonderful World — non-fiction film (Ivan Vlasov, VGIK, Moscow)

6. Flowers under Hail – non-fiction film (Lilia Rybalka, Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

7. Meeting in the Forest — feature film (Mark Velikanov, Amaranth Film School, Moscow, Russia)

8. The Sound of Clouds – documentary animation (Mohammad Lotfali, Iran)

9. Silent Route – animation (Merve Cirisoglu, UK)

10. TV series «About people and about the war», series: Mitka, Banka, Volunteer (Artel film Production, St. Petersburg, Russia)

11. The series «Tanya is the only one left» series: «The Advent of the Holiday», «Mom», «Breakthrough» (ot Alone Production, Moscow, Russia)

ORTHODOX FILM

1. Rozhdestvenskaya Zvezda – experimental (Foma Kino, Russia)

2. Defenders of the Spirit – non-fiction film (Alexandra Bogucharskaya, Regional Cinema Support Fund, Russia)

3. Maundy Thursday– feature film (Daniil Chernogortsev)

4. Historical Candlesticks — Monastery of St. Demetrius Valeciko – non-fiction film (Vlasis Nektarios Mantziokas, Greece)

5. Vovka (Oksana Stashenko, Moscow, Russia)

6. An unforgettable day. Elizaveta Fedorovna Romanova – non-fiction film (Elena Chach, Educational project «Shores» named after Daria Dugina, Russia)

7. Saints and loved ones. Fyodor Ushakov – non-fiction film (IP Medvedev S. K., Moscow, Russia)

8. Kseniushka — animation (Timofey Veronin, Natalia Fedchenko, Balt-TV LLC, St. Petersburg, Russia)

9. A Cross in the desert – feature film (Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic, Aleksandrija Film, Serbia)

The category «Light to the world. Films for children»: collectives and individual authors, without age restriction, making films for children, the main character(s) in which are children, films that are not included in the category «Light to the world. Children» and «Light to the World».

FEATURE FILM RUSSIA

1. How Dema Baklushkin Bazhova read (Andrey Kim, Alexander Leker, Studio «Master», Yekaterinburg)

2. My teacher (Antonina Abramova)

3. Fried liver (Borovskaya Irina, IP S.A. Menyakin)

4. Brothers (Regina Galiakbarova, Children’s Creative Association «Cinema for All Children»)

5. Hot Stone (Lolita Naranovich)

6. The Game (Dmitry Moguchev)

7. You smell like pilaf (Margarita Kharkov)

8. A May bug named Wobbler (Julia Linde)

FEATURE-LENGTH FEATURE FILM

1. The Rebels (Vladimir Alenikov, Eye Contact, ANTE, Russia)

2. A guest from outer space (Philip Dmitriev, Boomerang Film Company LLC)

3. Tumansk. The Confused city (Andrey Kim, Alexander Leker, Studio «Master», Yekaterinburg, Russia)

4. My Terrible Sister 2 (Alexander Galibin, Motor Film Studio and Nashe Kino LLC)

5. Tin Can Head (Ivan Kapitonov, QS Films and Kinomir)

A FOREIGN FEATURE FILM

1. Who needs teachers? (Ekal Deep Kaur, India)

2. Dita’s Act of Love (Bambang Si Irawan, India)

3. All Ness subscribers (Bruna Studel, Brazil)

4. Kittu Katha (Nikhil Kumar Reddy, India)

5. For Khoram (Jalal Saed Panah, India)

6. On the School Wall (Mohan Shrestha, Nepal)

A MOVIE WHERE CHILDREN PLAY

1. Seven Samurai and Panthers (Sladky Film Studio Moscow, Russia)

2. The Christmas Miracle (Elena Stoikina, Nizhny Novgorod. Russia)

3. Film magazine of the Foundation for the Development of children’s cinema «Creation», films: «Duel», «Fashionable fight», «Disguise» (Foundation for the Development of Children’s Cinema «Creation», Samara, Russia)

4. How to Find Friends (Oleg Zakharov, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)

5. Scorpion (Angelika Koshevaya, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)

6. Miracles have not Ended (Natalia Shchelokova, KinoNiva Children’s Studio, Russia)

7. Candle of Desires (Marianna Frolova, Russia)

ANIMATION

1. The Secret (Studio «Window», Yarmaz-Perspektiva Creative Association, Yaroslavl, Russia)

2. How a goat built a hut (Nadezhda Boyko, Ural Cinema Studio LLC, Yekaterinburg, Russia)

3. Little Sun, episode of the animated series «Umka» (Tatyana Kiselyova, Soyuzmultfilm, Moscow, Russia)

4. The Heart of the Ocean (Natalia Kharina, Alena Rubinstein, Prorat LLC, Russia)

5. Recipe book (Alexey Alekseev, Institute of Education, Russia)

6. Pushkin (Maxim Polyakov, Moscow, Russia)

7. Drop (Claudio Quattrone, Italy)

8. The Biscuits (Yavor Kalatchev, Bulgaria)

9. Toshka and his friends. Augmented reality. Reboot. (Alexander Lenkin, Belarus)

10. Mouse House (Timon Leder, Slovenia)

11. A letter for you! (Soyuzmultfilm, Moscow, Russia)

SOCIAL FILM

1. Respiration (Movie Magnet Studio, Iran)

2. Dream on wall (Ayad Abd ALhussain, Iraq)

3. Silence (Hsin Cheng, Taiwan)

4. Umbrella (Seyed Sadegh Hoseini, Iran)

5. Siren (Stephan Baykal, Turkey)

NON-FICTION FILM

1. The element of talent. New names. (ANO Assistance to Military Patriotic education UNION, Moscow)

2. Me and cinema (Tatyana Miroshnik, Film Program XXI century, Russia)

3. A Man of Work (Olga Azhnakina, Yablonya Creative Association LLC, Moscow, Russia)

4. I invented an electric scooter (Ruben Kazaryan, Kazakhstan)

5. Mom, I’m going to space! (Andranik Sargsyan, Daria Kulikova, Sofia Shugai, S.A. Gerasimov VGIK, Moscow, Russia)

AN OUT-OF-COMPETITION PROGRAM.

The program includes works that, according to the Regulations, cannot participate in the competition, but are marked by the organizing committee.

1. «Russian People», non-fiction film («SNEG Film Company», Yekaterinburg, Russia)

2. «Snowflakes», a film where children play («Sladky Film Studio» Moscow, Russia)

3. «Cabbage Miracle», animated film (Studio «SHAR» LLC, Moscow, Russia)

4. «Drawing with the heart», non-fiction the film (Natalia Rudanovskaya, Moscow, Russia)

5. «Avdeev. Open Space», non-fiction film (Maxim Kuznetsov, Contrast LLC, Moscow, Russia)

6. «Andrey Chirkov: Without pipes, without drums, with a quiet sigh», non-fiction film (Maxim Zlobin. Moscow, Russia)