“Trip to Paris”

Short

Complex relations between young prisoners of Kolpino Penal colony and the administration and the guard. A teenage boy, who's about to go for parole and leave the colony. He wants to get back to his normal life and family. But no one is waiting for him and no one is coming for him. Administration, inmates and workers know about it. But Max believes that his mother will wait for him at the gates of the prison. This story is about growing old, accepting unpleasant truth, about help, understanding and faith

16’

2018 , STRELA

Premiere - Theatrical

Awards:

Russian Film Festival "Gorky fest", Prize for "Best Director" (2018, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod) Russian Short Film Festival “In Short” (2018, Russia, Kaliningrad) KONIK Film Festival, Best Actor - Maxim Grebnev (2018, Russia, Moscow) Open Film Festival "Kinoshok", Prize for "Best Short Film" (2018, Russia, Anapa) International Short Film Festival "SHNIT", Grand Prix (2018, Russia, Moscow) International Short Film Festival "Curta Cinema" (2018, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro) International Film Festival of Socially Oriented Short Films, Videos, and Social Advertising "Lamp", Prize in the nomination "Game Short Film" (2018, Russia, Perm)International Arctic Film Festival "Arctic open", Prize for "Best Short Film", Prize in the nomination "Best Short Film Operator" (2018, Russia, Arkhangelsk) International festival-workshop of film schools "Kinoproba" (2018, Russia, Yekaterinburg) International festival of films about human rights “Stalker” (2018, Russia, Moscow) Black and White Rainbow Video Creativity Festival (2018, Russia, Tolyatti) Chennai International Short Film Festival (2019, India, Chennai) Cinema marathon of the Arctic Arctic International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Arkhangelsk region) Izhevsk Film Festival, Grand Prix (2019, Russia, Izhevsk) Tampere Film Festival (2019, Finland, Tampere) Open festival of student and debut films "Saint Anna", Grand Prix (2019, Russia, Moscow)

Days of German and Russian short films “In Brief!”, Best Actor - Semyon Shigin (2019, Russia, Volgograd) The international festival of short films "Human Cinema", GRAND PRIX and the Special Prize "For a New Film Language" (2019, Russia, Chelyabinsk) International European Film Festival Grenzland Filmtage (2019, Germany, Selb) International festival of student films "NEW WAVE" (2019, Bulgaria, Sofia) Sukhumi International Film Festival, Prize for "Best Director" (2019, Abkhazia, Sukhumi) Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow) Sguardi Altrove International Film Festival (2019, Italy, Milan)

Moscow festival of Russian cinema "Let's live!" (2019, Russia, Moscow) CIS International Film School for Young Filmmakers "Commonwealth" (2019, Georgia, Batumi) Figari Film Fest (2019, Italy, Golfo Aranci) Lublin Film Festival (2019, Poland, Lublin) Festival of Russian Films “Sputnik over Poland” (2019, Poland, Warsaw) International Film Festival “Message to the Man” (2019, Russia, St. Petersburg) International Short Film and Animation Festival “Vision” (2019, Russia, Kemerovo) JULA KINObrunch, Finalist (2019, Germany, Munich) Vilnius International Short Film Festival (2019, Lithuania, Vilnius) Bogota Short Film Festival (2019, Colombia, Bogota)

Online premiere:

https://piligrim.fund/film/puteshestvie-v-parizh