Private Project

The Leaving

Everyone has to be ready to appear before God, or it is irrevocably too late. My Lord! Save our guilty souls! Sorry for what we do! Do not desert us!

  • Dmitri Frolov
    Director
  • Dmitri Frolov
    Writer
  • Dmitri Frolov
    Producer
  • Yevgeniy Souhonenkov
    Key Cast
    "Jesus Christ"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 22, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Shooting Format:
    16 mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 4th Screen - Online Film Awards
    Kerala
    India
    April 23, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Clapperboard Golden Festival
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    May 4, 2022
    🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
  • Kabayitos Microcinema Experimental Short Film Program
    New York
    United States
    May 21, 2022
    Official Selection
  • GIMFA - Gralha International Monthly Film Awards
    Curitiba
    Brazil
    June 5, 2022
    🏆 BEST DIRECTOR OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 🏆 BEST EDITING OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Iconic Images Film Festival
    Vilnius
    Lithuania
    June 15, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Monthly Indie Shorts
    Scottsdale
    United States
    September 1, 2022
    Official Selection
  • BIMIFF - Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    February 12, 2024
    🏆 Best Sound Design of Experimental Film; 🏆 Best Production Design of Experimental Film
Director Biography - Dmitri Frolov

Dmitri Frolov was born in Leningrad in 1966. He graduated from The Institute of Film & Television in 1990.
He worked at LENFILM Studios and then for the STV film company as a cameraman, in which capacity he has worked with many independent filmmakers.
He began to shoot his own films before the start of perestroika, in the early 1980s, He is one of the leaders of russian movievanguard in postperestroika age. He makes esthetic experiments connecting with return to dumb cinema on new level of movielanguage.
His films he shoots exclusively on film company "Svema". Even despite the fact that the film material, said the factory was left far in the Soviet past, and the film is not released, he revives the footage, while continuing to be faithful to the brand selected more child. When asked why, he replied that only "Svema" because of its unpredictability and non-uniformity of the emulsion, is the living material, which is able to convey the thrill of the character of life and even the seemingly inanimate object.
The Svema Production Association is a Soviet and Ukrainian enterprise for the production of photographic materials.

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