Garage Museum of Contemporary Art hosts shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival for the third year running.
This year shnit will be taking place in Russia and seven other countries across four continents at the same time. The festival’s program includes national and international competitions and Garage Screen curator, critic Evgeny Gusyatinsky will be on shnit’s National Jury.
Garage will screen works by Icelandic, Danish, Dutch, Swiss, South African, and other filmmakers who are not very well known in Russia. National programs will feature both genre cinema and experimental works at the intersection of film and video art. Garage will host a premiere of Arrival, the directorial debut by actress Alina Nasibullina, in which she reinterprets the Parable of the Ten Virgins in a sequence of poetic female monologues. Other screenings include a comedy by Mikhail Mestetsky, a crime drama by Axinja Gog, and Fuel, Mikhail Arkhipov’s grand homage to the Soviet avant-garde starring Nikita Kukushkin.