The Rome Independent Film Festival presents the RIFF 2009 special event:

Selection of short films from Open Cinema festival, St. Petersburg

Emptiness by Alexander Kargaltsev - Russia, 2007-10’
experimental video
Today advertisement is everywhere, gradually but successfully its aesthhetics penetrates into the feature film too. In this film a inique attempt is undertaken which i sto reconcile a visual creative value of the advertysement with a quite serious plot. As a result we’re gota n amazing picture and a bright story.

Air - by Konstantin Buryukov - Russia, 2007 - 4’
animation
A story about big cities’ citizens.

Rain Down from Above - by Ivan Maximov - Russia, 2007 - 7’40’’
there is undeniably a certain irresistibile magic in the animation itself that makes you watch on

One Blow - by Masha Sha - Russia, 2008 - 40”
video art
when children get older…

Vetry Lestnits («Tequilajazzz») - by Artyom Lobach, Elena Artuhova - Belorussia, 2008 - 4’
video art
animated video on the song “Vetry Lestnits” by a famous rock-band «Tequilajazzz»

Lullaby by Andrey Zolotukhin - Russia, 2007 - 14’
why did he leave at night, when she was sleeping?

Lost Time in Clerkenwell by Alexey Budovsky - USA, 2007 - 3’55”
videoclip
this musical animation based on instrumental composition by Steven Coates tells the story about the Royal Legion of Bird after tyhey in three minutes occupied London in 2002.

Onego Dream by Alexander Strelets - Russia, 2008 - 8’
a dream of a little girl…