20.10.2025 at 18:30. International competition-6: Reversed Footsteps | Entre Tormentas / Between the Storms | The Spectacle | The Nature of Dogs | Mensch | En hjältes död / The Death of a Hero, Dom Kino, Big Hall

Time and place

Monday, 20 October 2025 at 18:10

Dom Kino Cinema Center – Big Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12

Description

Reversed Footsteps

2025, Armenia-Russia, 9 min., col., no dialogue, feature, short-length
Director: Maxim Eruzhenets, Marina Kirakosyan

Entre Tormentas / Between the Storms

2025, Puerto Rico, 13 min., col., language – Spanish, feature, short-length
Director: Fran Zayas

The Spectacle

2025, Hungary-France, 17 min., col., language – Hungarian, feature, short-length
Director: Bálint Kenyeres

The Nature of Dogs

2024, Thailand-USA-Singapore-Hong Kong, 27 мин., цвет., язык – Thai, feature, short-length
Director: Pom Bunsermvicha

MENSCH

2024, France, 16 min., col., language – French, feature, short-length
Director: Luca Lellouche

En hjältes död / The Death of a Hero

2024, Sweden, 15 min., col., language – Swedish, feature, short-length
Director: Karin Franz Körlof

Mensch

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Luca Lellouche

Operator: Tara-Jay Bangalter

Screenwriter: Aurore Levy & Luca Lellouche

Cast: Anaïde Rozam, Tassadit Mandi, Colombe Ducrot

Producer: Luca Lellouche, Leïla Carpentier, Nathan Levy-Soussan

Producer company : Deux Ailes Films; Manifest

Year: 2024

Country: France

Duration: 16 min.

Languages: French

Description

Russian premiere

Young midwife Esther works night shifts, delivering babies. She spends her days with her grandmother, Laya. The beginning of life and its end coexist side by side.

About the director:

Luca Lellouche
Filmmaker of Polish and Tunisian descent. After studying film in London and graduating from the University of the Arts London (LCC), directing through numerous music videos for artists such as Basile Palace, Kids Return, and Please. He mainly works with Super 16 and Mini DV formats. Alongside these projects, he writes fiction, both alone and in collaboration with Aurore Levy, a graduate of the National Theatre of Strasbourg. Luca is currently developing his first feature film.

Reversed Footsteps

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Maxim Eruzhenets, Marina Kirakosyan

Producer company : NOIR Films

Year: 2025

Country: Armenia-Russia

Duration: 9 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

World premiere

An elderly man returns to the places of his happy childhood, though they have long since been reduced to ruins. The past cannot be reclaimed, but memory clings to what remains most precious.

About the director:

Maxim Eruzhenets, Marina Kirakosyan
The directorial duo of Maxim Eruzhenets and Marina Kirakosyan have been working for over 15 years in the fields of contemporary dance, theatre, sculpture, and music. They have created more than 30 documentary and short live-action films, featured in festival programmes in Russia, France, and Argentina. Their film Waltz was part of In Silico Experimental Film Competition at the 30th Message to Man International Film Festival.

The Spectacle

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Bálint Kenyeres

Operator: Thimios Bakatakis

Screenwriter: Bálint Kenyeres

Cast: Vilmos Jónás, Jolika Józsefné Oláh, Soma Sándor

Producer: Anna Bartók, Zita Kisgergely, Tamás Hutlassa

Producer company : Anabanana

Year: 2025

Country: Hungary-France

Duration: 17 min.

Languages: Hungarian

Description

Russian premiere

A young Roma boy is chosen for a television feature after word spreads of his unusual gift. As expectations rise, his quiet talent faces the harsh glare of media scrutiny. What follows is a quiet unraveling – for him, and for those around him.

About the director:

Bálint Kenyeres
Filmmaker born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying philosophy, film history, and film theory, he graduated as a film director from the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in 2006. Since then, he has been a member of the European Film Academy. His film Closing Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was selected for more than 30 other festivals. His short Before Dawn was in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, won a Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the European Film Academy Prix UIP for Best European Short in 2006. His third short, The History of Aviation, premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2009 and was selected for 50 film festivals. Bálint’s first feature Hier, a European co-production, premiered in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018.

Entre Tormentas / Between the Storms

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Fran Zayas

Operator: Irene Merdacal

Screenwriter: Fran Zayas

Cast: José Eugenio Hernández, Magali Carrasquillo, Eddie Díaz Rivera

Producer: Spike Lee, José Manuel Vélez, Fran Zayas, Surhail Navarro

Producer company : Lights On

Year: 2025

Country: Puerto Rico

Duration: 13 min.

Languages: Spanish

Description

Russian premiere

Gripping dramatic thriller about Cheo, a grieving man who, after a hurricane devastates his hometown, risks everything to retrieve the displaced remains of his brother from an off-limits cemetery.

About the director:

Fran Zayas
Puerto Rican independent filmmaker based in New York City. Fran is a recent graduate of the MFA Film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in Directing and Writing. He has been awarded the BAFTA BBC Diversity Scholarship, the Spike Lee Production Film Fund, and the Cary Fukunaga Production Fund. Zayas’ films focus on individuals navigating moral dilemmas, generational family trauma, and the search for belonging in the face of gentrification and climate change.

The Nature of Dogs

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Pom Bunsermvicha

Operator: Kritsada Nakagate

Screenwriter: Pom Bunsermvicha, Nicha Ratana-Apiromyakij

Cast: Chayanit Chansangavej, Sanya Kunakorn, Duangjai Hiransri, Wasin Panumaporn

Producer: Pom Bunsermvicha, Tanwarat Sombatwattana

Producer company : Lights On

Year: 2024

Country: Thailand-USA-Singapore-Hong Kong

Duration: 27 min.

Languages: Thai

Description

Russian premiere

A family of four and their dog arrive at a seaside hotel in Kui Buri, Thailand. What appears to be an ordinary vacation turns into a series of interactions that betray an unspoken tension in their relationships. The next day, complexities unfold in a cave housing buddha statues.

About the director:

Pom Bunsermvicha
Filmmaker based in Bangkok, Thailand. Pom Bunsermvicha’s works A Second Chance (2018) and Lemongrass Girl (2021), which often combine documentary elements with fiction, have been shown at festivals in Southeast Asia and abroad, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Locarno Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, SeaShorts and New Holland International Debut Film Festival.

En hjältes död / The Death of a Hero

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Karin Franz Körlof

Operator: Ari Willey

Screenwriter: Karin Franz Körlof

Cast: Svante Malm, Hulda Lind Jóhannsdóttir, Weine Johansson

Producer: Hanna Hannerz Simå, Elin Bennett

Producer company : Nordantill film

Year: 2024

Country: Sweden

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: Swedish

Description

Russian premiere

Sensational news: a young man plans to jump from a church belfry to reignite the waning interest in religion among the congregation.

About the director:

Karin Franz Körlof
Screenwriter, actress and director. Educated at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, she has acted in numerous films, TV productions and plays. Karin has written and directed four short films as well as one play, Barbienazisten (The Barbie Nazi).