End of Season

UK, Kazakhstan / 23 min 45 sec / 2018

SYNOPSIS

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At the end of summer, Rosa (50) arrives at her husband’s resort – a small hotel in the vast dry steppe, to check on staff and collect the accounts. An unexpected encounter interrupts the routine of her stay and awakens long gone passion for swimming.

CAST AND CREW​

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Writer/Director

Cinematographer

Producers

Production Designer

Editors

Sound

Starring

Zhannat Alshanova

Cem Demirerr

Zhannat Alshanova, Paisley Valentine Walsh

Sasha Shegay

Julien Testa, Zhannat Alshanova

Bojan Palicuća

Rosa Khaitullina and Dulyga Akmolda

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SCREENINGS

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• Official Selection 71st Cannes Film Festival 2018 (Cinéfondation), France

• PANALUX LFS nomination "Best cinematography", UK, 2018

• Official Selection Baikonyr Film Festival, Kazakhstan, 2018

• Official Selection Eureca Universitario del Cine, Columbia

• Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival (LFS Showcase), UK, 2018

• SPECIAL MENTION for the THE NIGHT AWARD at the 16th Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris, France, 2018

• Official Selection Warsaw International Short Film Festival (Cinemaforum), Poland, 2018

• WINNER Best Cinematography - Student Camera Award, FilmschoolFest Munich, Germany, 2018 - 

• Official Selection Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival, European Film Schools Portrait, Germany, 2018

• WINNER Most Promising Director Award Tel-Aviv Student Film Festival, Israel, 2019

• Official Selection New East Cinema, UK 

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END OF SEASON

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