LUFTSCHLOSS
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis | NOMINATION for "Best Short Film" | 2016
SWIKOS Kurz Film Festival WINNER Best Actor | Basel | 2015
Max Ophüls Preis | Saarbrücken | 2016
Filmfestival Kitzbühel | 2016
Filmfest Malans | 2016
ONE Country ONE Film International Film Festival | Apchat | 2016
Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema | 2016
Kino Likbez - International Festival of Independent Cinema | St. Petersburg | 2016
FICAE - Diseases International Shortfilm & Art Festival | Valencia | 2016
International Debut Film Festival „SPIRIT OF FIRE“ | Chanty-Mansijsk | 2016
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur | 2015
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage | 2015
Shnit International Shortfilmfestival | Bern | Schweiz | 2015
SWITZERLAND / LATVIA | fiction | 18` | 2014
1991, Riga Latvia, time of the perestroika.
The nine-year-old Lena is a child of divorced parents. Her parents separated when she was still very small. Since then they didn’t exchange a single word, their last connection is Lena.
Her father is a drinker and her mother tries to renew her love life.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home and strolls through the nocturnal Riga.
That’s when Lena’s journey back home begins.
Written & directed by: Olga Dinnikova, Cast:
Sofija Stavinskaya, Dana Cernecova, Andrej Lavrinec, Girts Kesteris, Anatolij Fechin, Sara Stavinskaya, Andrej Jakunin, Lyudmila Golubeva, Cinematography: Tom Keller, Art Direction: Alina Fedotova, Anna Fedotova Editors: Olga Dinnikova & Markus Fischer, Producers: Markus Fischer, Simone Schmassmann, Filippo Bonacci, Aija Berzina
ZHdK & Snakefilm, Tasse Film SIA as a service producer in Latvija.
