Shoes (2012)
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Country:
Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland
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Duration:
19 . min
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Genre:
drama, history, music
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Director:
Konstantin Fam
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Producer:
Konstantin Fam, Uriy Igrushа
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Cast:
Uliana Elina, Tatiana Spyrgyash, Ilya Uglava, Alexander Bokovets
About film
The film unfolds during the 1930s and 1940s and follows a story of a pair of women's shoes, which starts in a store's window and tragically ends at the mass grave of shoes at the Auschwitz concentration camp. There is no dialogue in the film and no faces are shown. The filming took place in Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Poland, and France. More than 600 international experts participated in its production.
Rewards and nominations
- Monaco International Film Festival and Angel Films Awards 2013 — Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Producer, Best OST, Best Cinematography, Angel Peace Award
- International Video Festival Empire 2013 (Italy) — Grand Prix
- X International Charity Film Festival Radiant Angel 2013 (Russia) — Best Live Action Short Film Award
- Artkino Film Festival 2013 (Russia) — The Best Experimental Film Award
- KONIK Film Festival 2013 (Russia) — Prize for The Contribution To The Short Film Development In Russia, Prize for The Musical Solution
- Vstrechi Na Vyatke Short Film Festival 2013 (Russia) — Grand Prix
- Yerevan International Film Festival Golden Apricot, 2013 (Armenia) — Special prize of the New Mag magazine
- The Haifa International Film Festival 2014 (Israel) — Special program opening film
Director
47-year-old producer, director, and screenwriter. Fam was born to a Vietnamese father and a Jewish mother. Fam graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, then entered the New York Film Academy. Fam’s thesis project Hedgehog was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. The Trilogy Witnesses includes three short films - Shoes, Brutus, and Violin. Shoes was added to the Yad Vashem's Visual Center (Israel) alongside the films by Spielberg, Polanski, Benigni. Violin premiered at the MIFF in 2017. Konstantin Fam is one of the creators and the producer of the Moscow Jewish Film Festival.
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Director
47-year-old producer, director, and screenwriter. Fam was born to a Vietnamese father and a Jewish mother. Fam graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, then entered the New York Film Academy. Fam’s thesis project Hedgehog was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. The Trilogy Witnesses includes three short films - Shoes, Brutus, and Violin. Shoes was added to the Yad Vashem's Visual Center (Israel) alongside the films by Spielberg, Polanski, Benigni. Violin premiered at the MIFF in 2017. Konstantin Fam is one of the creators and the producer of the Moscow Jewish Film Festival.
