Winter Will Not Be
"There will be no winters" - a film consisting of 14 short novels, each with its own plot and a musical theme. In fact, this is a screen version of the same album of Russian avant-garde singer Leonid Fedorov.
A dark, abstruse text is as much an equal part of music as a double bass or a rustling sound that produces sounds to the beat. The last thing is actually a fragment of a telephone conversation, a song about Lady Diana - a song that the legendary avant-garde poet Anri Volokhonsky recites to Fedorov on an answering machine.
Paradoxically, the film and music series has something in common with the present day, with the problem of an incomprehensible disease that grips the whole world, with the absurdity of a military confrontation between once friendly and kindred people and peoples. At the same time, each work carries a deeply personal subtext of the author. Unexpectedly strange and largely archaic music, the words of the texts, scattering in shades of meaning, backed up by stories captured on tape. All this together gives an unexpected context to the author's intention of both the composer and the director. The soundtrack and the image are linked into one inseparable semantic knot. And the viewer is presented with the story of life, death, pain, suffering, happiness, loneliness, the search for the meaning of existence, love and loss.
The film uses all genres from abstract, documentary, experimental film observation to feature film and all types of film fixation - super 8 mm, 16 mm, 35 mm film, color and b/ w...
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Dmitri FrolovDirector
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Dmitri FrolovWriter
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Dmitri FrolovProducer
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Leonid FyodorovKey Cast"the main role"
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Anastasiya ShkirskayaKey Cast"Grandmother"
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Music Video, Short, Other
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Genres:Music, Absurd, Tragicomedy, Drama
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Runtime:39 minutes
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Completion Date:August 7, 2021
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Production Budget:700 USD
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Country of Origin:Russian Federation
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Country of Filming:Russian Federation
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Language:Russian
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Shooting Format:16 mm, 35 mm, Super8 mm
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Black Swan International Film FestivalKolkata
India
September 7, 2021
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM -
Global Monthly Online Film Competition
Canada
September 17, 2021
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT -
GRASS ROOT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALPuducherry
India
September 29, 2021
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM -
Paradise Film FestivalBudapest
Hungary
October 3, 2021
Official Selection -
Accord Cine FestMumbai
India
October 3, 2021
Finalist -
Madras Independent Film FestivalChennai
India
October 12, 2021
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM -
Hallucinea Film FestivalParis
France
October 19, 2021
Official Selection -
Rome Music Video AwardsRome
Italy
November 7, 2021
Semi-Finalist -
GLIFF - Golden LemurLisabon
Portugal
November 23, 2021
Official Selection -
Rome Independent Prisma AwardsRome
Italy
December 5, 2021
FINALIST -
Direct Monthly Online Film FestivalDetroit
United States
December 1, 2021
Official Selection -
Brno Film FestivalBrno
Czech Republic
December 9, 2021
WINNER: 🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM -
GIMFA - Gralha International Monthly Film AwardsCuritiba
Brazil
December 13, 2021
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR, 🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING -
OTB | Only The Best Film AwardsMIAMI
United States
December 15, 2021
🏆 JURI AWARD - Only The Best Film (all genres) | Micro, Short or Feature Film -
Hodu International film festivalPondicherry
India
December 24, 2021
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM -
World Indie Film AwardsChongqing
China
April 12, 2022
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM -
Thessaloniki Free Short FestivalThessaloniki
Greece
May 9, 2022
Official Selection -
4th Screen - Online Film AwardsKerala
India
December 7, 2022
Official Selection -
Cinemaking International Film FestivalDhaka
Bangladesh
January 31, 2023
🏆 Special Mention -
Humro Cinema Film FestPokhra
Nepal
November 29, 2023
FINALIST -
Indie World Film FestivalNaxxar
Malta
December 4, 2023
🏆 Special Mention in Experimental Film -
BIMIFF - Brazil International Monthly Independent Film FestivalRio de Janeiro
Brazil
February 12, 2024
Official Selection -
FESTIVAL DE INDIEChennai
India
February 20, 2024
🏆 Best Tragic Comedy Film Award -
London Global Film AwardsLondon
United Kingdom
March 1, 2024
Official Selection -
Ipanema Film FestivalRio de Janeiro
Brazil
April 10, 2024
Official Selection -
Miami International Gold AwardsMiami Beach
United States
July 6, 2024
🏆 HONORABLE MENTION -
Cine Vista Oasis Film AwardsJakarta
Indonesia
August 12, 2024
🏆 Best Director, 🏆 Best Cinematographer, 🏆 Best Trailer; 🏆 FINALIST - Best Experimental Film -
Cannes World Film FestivalCannes
France
August 27, 2024
🏆 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
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.