Completed - RUSSIAN - Drama, First film - 87 minutes
HAPPINESS IS WITHIN EACH ONE OF US
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Ella MANZHEEVA Writer(s) : Ella MANZHEEVA Cast : Evgeniya MANDZHIEVA, Sergey ADIANOV, Evgeny SANGADZHIEV, Lyubov UBUSHIEVA, Dmitry MUKEYEV Producer(s) : Elena GLIKMAN (TELESTO production company), Yaroslav ZHIVOV (TELESTO production company)
“Only the wind, the sand, the reed and a desire to live not worse than the others…” – these words served as a base for the atmosphere of this story, and they are incredibly precise as a definition of the real world in these places. The Seagulls are a parable on the background of modern Kalmykia. It is about love, with the characters intuitively fulfilling forgotten traditions. Their love is silent and their sorrow is without tears… The seagulls are souls of dead fishermen, broken boats… a hope. Elza the fisherman’s wife lives in a seaside town in Kalmykia. She wants to leave her husband but cannot take this step because she is afraid of uncertainty. Suddenly her husband dies. Because of his death, Elza has to think everything over and reconsider her views on life, on happiness, on liberty…
Country(ies) : RUSSIA
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2015 ForumTallinn Black Nights IFF 2015 ForumHaifa IFF 2015European Film Festival Palic 2015 (Best Film in Parallels and Encounters Section)Edinburgh IFF 2015Midnight Sun Film Festival 2015Karlovy Vary IFF 2015Fünf Seen Film Festival 2015 (Best Script)ANONIMUL IFF, Danube Delta 2015IFF Film by the Sea 2015LET’S CEE Film Festival 2015Warsaw IFF 2015San Paulo IFF 2015AFI FEST, USA 2015Colombo IFF 2015APSA Nominations 2015 (• APSA UNESCO Achievement Award, • Best Performance by an Actress)Brisbane Asia Pacific FF 2015Sputnik Film Festival 2015Tromsø IFF 2016Goteborg IFF 2016