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SHORT FILMS
Upside down
Вверх тормашками
Year of production: 2024
Production company: Belarusian State Academy of Arts
Production country: Belarus
Director: Ekaterina Ksionts
Producer: Ekaterina Ksionts
Screenwriter: Ekaterina Ksionts
D.O.P.: Ekaterina Ksionts
Editor: Ekaterina Ksionts
Sound director: Sergey Sinyavsky
Film category: Comedy
Rating: 6+
Length: 19 min.
My sister, Angelina, is sitting on a swing and thinking: "Why should I live?" She has already learned the hardships of an unrequited love, the death of a guinea pig and a friend’s betrayal. Two years ago, Angelina considered herself cute, but now she doubts her looks. Greasy hair, small breasts, crooked teeth. Everything is as it should be for a ten-year-old girl. But the she does not despair and does not want to change for the sake of someone else. She is 10 years old and she does not intend to laugh at trifles.
Selected festival history
2024:
  • XXIV International Documentary Film Festival «Flahertiana» (Special mention by the jury).
  • Open Documentary Film Festival «RUSSIA» (Award «for the best short film»).
  • XXX Minsk International Film Festival «Listapad» (Diploma «For an original artistic reflection of the world of a teenager»).
  • The XIX International Film Festival «We won together» (The «Best Film» prize for the convincing embodiment of personality formation in adolescence theme»).
  • 44th VGIK International Student Festival (Student Jury Prize «For a small adult Child»).
  • Ekaterina Ksionts
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    Ksionts Ekaterina was born in Minsk. Tried making short films in high school. After graduation, she entered the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, the workshop of Galina Adamovich.