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FESTIVAL DE BANNES: Festival of the Worst Films

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A group project of third-year students in the Motion Design major (BDZ203), which resulted from working on a module assignment — Creating an alternative screensaver for a film studio.

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This event was held at the 3rd of July 2023

The Festival de Bannes film festival has collected the worst films of all genres and genres from around the world over the past year, from which one winner was selected in each of 20 categories. Each director worked together with a classic cinematographer from different countries, from Jan Svankmajer to David Fincher. In the film-cut, each author will talk about the director with whom he worked, show a screensaver for his film studio, a teaser for a new film and media for its promotion.

A screening of the works of the competition winners took place in St. Petersburg at the «Dom Kino» cinema.

: FILM FESTIVAL WEBSITE

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OFFICIAL FESTIVAL WEBSITE

: PRODUCTION

: Graphic Design

^{Fedotova Sofia
Novikova Olesya}

: Montage

^{Smirnova Anastasia}

: Site

^{Razoryonov Stepan
Fedotova Sofia}

Scenes with the host and guest were filmed using chromakey

IN COMPETITION:

01: ROBERT VINCE STUDIO

^{Nomination:
PATHETIC LIKENESS OF A FAMILY MOVIE}

Film: Lucky Paw → Directors: Sofia Fedotova & Robert Vince

^{Katie witnesses a fight and, not intending to cover up the offenders, tells the director about everything. Now she becomes the new object of bullying Matt and his gang. The girl starts skipping school and, taking books, runs to the lake at the foot of the hill. On one of these outings, Katie encounters a six-toed dog abandoned by her owners. What will this unusual acquaintance lead to?}

02: Op. 25, No. 5

^{Nomination:
WORST SONG FOR THE FILM AWARD}

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Film: WELTE—MIGNON → Directors: Marina Ryabtseva & Michael Haneke

^{The family consists of 3 people, lives an ordinary life, but at one moment the mother and child leave home without a word. During half a year they send their photos, but at one moment they disappear from his life.}

03: D/F Company

^{Nomination:
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR AWARD}

Film: I Will Find You → Directors: Ekaterina Andreeva & David Fincher

^{Enterprising teenager, according to the notes and drawings of his younger brother, is looking for the one who stole him, while the police and relatives are sure that he is dead.}

04: INTENTION FILMS

^{Nomination:
WORST LOSER IN 25 YEARS AWARD}

Film: Back & Forth → Directors: Ekaterina Epifanova & Wim Wenders

^{The hero is forced to move to a small town, leaving behind everything he has built for many years: work, home, friends. During a long journey, he encounters a variety of people and events and rethinks his life. Realizing that the most important thing is the family, everything is still with him, he gets used to the idea of starting to build a new life in a still strange town.}

05: ATHANOR

^{Nomination:
PATHETIC LIKENESS OF A MOVIE}

Film: ŠOTEK → Directors: Stepan Razoryonov & Jan Svankmajer

^{Johan watches over the brownie in his apartment and leaves him a bowl of porridge every day. But once the brownie does not find butter in the treat, he becomes furious. The cruelty and insanity of his revenge makes Johan question his sanity.}

06: FRENESY STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST FILM GROSSING OVER $100 MILLION}

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Film: FIRST DAY OF SPRING → Directors: Viktoria Veshkelskaya & Luca Guadagnino

^{She is eight years old, and she is the best in the area on her hands, walks along the fences and steals sweets. And she also has a secret. She just killed a boy. Neighborhood mothers are frightened to death, their horror was transferred to the children. And Chrissy has lemonade bubbles in her stomach. She feels omnipotent.}

07: AWS STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST USE OF 3D AWARD}

Film: EXTRATERRESTRIAL → Directors: Polina Cheprasova & Alex Garland

^{A middle-aged chemist who has lost hope for life goes into the forest to brew a new narcotic substance in order to make money on human addiction. However, he gave birth to something else…}

08: MARGUERITE DURAS STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST SOUNDTRACK AWARD}

Film: WHEN I SAW THE WHITE FLICKERING LIGHT → Directors: Viktoria Kuznetsova & Marguerite Duras

^{An attempt to touch the world through the sound and recording of the surrounding world. Diary notes of a young girl about love and the desire to understand how nature sounds. External detachment and internal concentration.}

09: 260 ISLANDS STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST ACTRESS OF THE DECADE AWARD}

Film: KALEIDOSCOPE → Directors: Polina Kakosha & Wong Kar Wai

^{Hong Kong always welcomes people who get lost in the kaleidoscope of life. In the midst of mental anguish, a young writer receives news of her father’s death. The man who instilled in her a love of paper. Her life is losing color. She decides to return to where she spent her best years. However, the house kept not only warm memories, but also family secrets. Pop-up books and other people’s letters will give the heroine hope for a new life. Can she solve all these mysteries? What will be her condition and aspirations? Is there anything that can rekindle the fire in her?}

10: МЖАЛАЛАФИЛЬМ

^{Nomination:
WORST CAST AWARD}

Film: ILOVLINSKOE BLACK OIL → Directors: Varvara Shilikhina & Evgeniy Yufit

^{The terminally ill welder returns to his native land after a long absence to tell his namesake about his hypothesis. Approaching the «place from where they come and where they return», a person meets phantoms of the prehistoric past and a white steamer moving away into the distance…}

: COMMERCIAL BREAK

11: FUGA STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS AWARD}

Film: LOCKED → Directors: Olesya Novikova & Roman Polanski

^{The main hero mysteriously finds himself locked in his own apartment. Along with strange and nightmare dreams, he cannot escape either through the windows or through the front door, which is locked from the inside. Over time, the hero begins to suspect that he is being watched by residents from neighboring apartments.}

12: YAKAMOZ STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST DIRECTOR AWARD}

_VIDEO NOT FOUND

Film: OF THE MIDDAY WIND → Directors: Julia Krotenko & Nuri Bilge Ceylan

^{Perhaps they simply do not know how to express their thoughts about the appointment of a person, about the relationship of people to each other in a different way. The hero, perceiving the world around him, feels both his closeness to it and alienation, feels the reality random and devoid of meaning.}

13: HECATA STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST ACTOR AWARD}

Film: EXCELLENT STUDENT → Directors: Anastasia Smirnova & Aleksey Fedorchenko

^{The main character and his daughter spend the summer traveling to countries and cities.}

14: SPOOKY WOOKY STUDIO

^{Nomination:
PATHETIC LIKENESS OF A HORROR MOVIE}

Film: THE MASK → Directors: Varvara Apanasyk & Spooky Wooky

^{In a quiet provincial town, terrible murders begin to occur. The victims are local residents, whose bodies are found mutilated and brutally mutilated. All evidence points to the fact that a ruthless maniac-killer with an ax has appeared in the town.}

15: SHIRI STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST ACTOR OF THE CENTURY AWARD}

Film: KODOK → Directors: Elina Museeva & Hong Sang-soo

^{Despite the fact that Lien has many friends, she suffers from loneliness and unrequited love. Under the influence of an emotional impulse, she leaves for the sea, which she has never seen before.}

16: SPECTATE STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST FILM AWARD}

Film: COLOURFUL DREAMS → Directors: Polina Kozlova & Jonas Mekas

^{Fragments of memories, like distant dreams from a hot night, slip from under our fingers, but remain with us in the form of a kaleidoscope of frames.}

17: CORBIJN STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD}

18: DON QUIJOT STUDIO

^{Nomination:
WORST ACTING DUET AWARD}

Film: TWO FRIENDS TRAVEL THE WORLD AND MAKE VARIOUS ADVENTURES → Directors: Anastasia Nechaeva & Terry Gilliam

^{Two friends hitchhike around the world. At some point, they meet a girl who joins their journey. Over time, the guys realize that both fell in love with her and everyone begins to fight for the beauty’s attention. All this leads to a big conflict, fights and contention between best friends. What will this journey be like?}

19: KAIJU STUDIO

^{Nomination:
DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE AND PUBLIC PROPERTY}

Film: GODZILLA VS METEOR CRAB → Directors: Ekaterina Zabolotskih X Ishiro Honda

^{The film takes place in 2029. Humanity has not been threatened for many years. But one day, the asteroid «Apophis» flies past the Earth, which had previously approached our planet. A chunk of impressive size breaks off from the asteroid and falls to Earth. Scientists are ready to travel to the site of a serious disaster for further study. However, it is learned that the fall caused much more serious consequences in the form of a huge monster that is already approaching the city…}

20: MATTER OF MINUTE FILMS

^{Nomination:
WORST SCREENPLAY AWARD}

Film: ZVUK PARNOY TISHINY → Directors: by Ekaterina Nikiforova X Apichatpong Weerasethakul

^{A film about the mystical transformation of the spirit that encourages everyobe who has at least time been to the baths. A bath in which time is turned into mystical steam patterns is a space of gentle touch of the souls of ancestors weaved into our existence.}

IN A YEAR WHEN EVERYTHING SUCKED, EVERYBODY GETS A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM THE 1ST ANNUAL BANNIE^® AWARDS