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SHORT LIVE-ACTION FILMS
The Lamb
Барашек
Premiere: Far Eastern premiere
Production country: Russia
Year of production: 2024
Length: 24
Rating (age category): 12+
Film-category (genre): Comedy, drama
Director: Kristina Shirinova
Producer: Nadezhda Gertsen
Screenwriter: Evgeniya Rudyuk
Composer: Gennady Medvedev
DOP: Matvey Lunev
Editor: Kristina Shirinova
Production designer: Anna Aslanyan
Costume designer: Daria Chugunova
Make up artist: Anastasia Stavskaya
Sound director: Sofia Ostrovskaya
Cast: Akhmad Jafarov, Anisat Nusrulayeva, Hasan Magomedov, Amin Shingarov

An eight-year-old Muslim lives in a Dagestan village. After his father left for the war, he has to take care of his father's flock, as well as fight for the preservation of their family instead of his father.
Selected festival history
2024 - International Film Festival "Short Film Days" (The best film according to the jury of the Tik-tok generation)
2024 - International Festival of student Films of the CIS countries "Ascension" (Audience Award, prize for the best work of the production designer)
  • Kristina Shirinova
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    Born in 2000 in Saratov. She started directing in 2016 at the theater. In 2024, she graduated from the VGIK, the directing workshop of V.Menshov, S.Ursulyak, V.Alentova. She works as a director of films, commercials and shows. She is a laureate of international and national film festivals.

    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    2024 – The Lamb
    2023 – The Arrival of the Seagull
    2022 – Tatiana's Flight
    2021 – Butterfly in hand
    2021 – Acclimatization