MILKY BROTHER
POLISH TITLE: MLECZNY BRAT
REPRESENTED BY KFF
A story of a little boy named Seto who lives in a small village in Armenia. Soon, a new member of his family is to be born. Seto is hoping for a brother, yet the infant dies. Instead of a little brother, a lamb appears in Seto's life. Initial dislike turns quickly into liking – friendship evolves between Seto and the lamb. Unfortunately, not for long. The family decides that the boys has to part with his favourite animal.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND, ARMENIA
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Vahram Mkhitaryan
- SCRIPT:
- Vahram Mkhitaryan, Aleksandra Majdzińska
- DOP:
- Marcin Sauter
- EDITOR:
- Ziemowit Jaworski
- MUSIC:
- Mikołaj Trzaska
- PRODUCTION:
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Wajda Studio
Vahram Mkhitaryan »
was born in 1977 in Armenia. He is director and photographer. In 2001, Vahram Mkhitaryan graduated from Armenian State Pedagogical University, Culture Faculty, Department of Feature Films Directing (Dmitry Kesayants’ studio). After that he was engaged in production of Public Service Announsments as director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. In 2005 he came to Poland as a scholar of The Lane Kirkland Program of Polish-American Freedom Foundation and Polish-American Fulbright Commission. He worked as assistant at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In 2009 and 2011 received scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture “Gaude Polonia”. He graduated from Wajda School’s programmes - “Development Lab” for feature films and “DokPro” for documentary films. In 2014 he finished his first independent documentary film “Shepherd`s Song” and short debut film “Milky Brother”. Both films are first Polish-Armenian co-productions.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- 7th Eastern Neighbours Film Festival,, 2014 (screening)
- Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
- 20th REGARD - Festival international du court métrage au Saguenay, Canada, 2016 (screening)
- 26th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (The Award for the Best Short and Documentary Films Producer in Poland)
- 11th Yerevan International Film Festival GOLDEN APRICOT, Armenia, 2014 (Golden Apricot Award, Hrant Matevossian Special Prize for Best Script)
- 14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- 27th Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, France, 2015 (Grand Jury Prize European Short Films)
- 8th Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK, 2015 (competition)
- 20th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania , 2015 (competition)
- 22nd International Film Festival Febiofest, Slovakia, 2015 (Best Short Film)
- 7th Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2015 (competition)
- 25th Mediawave International Film and Media Gathering, Hungary, 2015 (Best Short Fiction Film)
- Brooklyn Film Festival 2015, USA, 2015 (competition)
- 10th Sardinia Film Festival, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- 21st Festival della Lessinia, Italy, 2015 (Lessinia d'Argento)
- 24th Kinoshock Film Festival, Russia, 2015 (competition)
- 45th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraina, 2015 (Special Award of the Jury)
- 7th Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2015 (competition)
- ALTER-NATIVE 23 International Short Film Festival 2015, Romania, 2015 (competition)
- ALCINE45, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 26th Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2015 (competition)
- 37th Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, 2015 (Special Mention)
- 18th Olympia International Film Festival, Greece, 2015 (Best Short Fiction Film)
- 14th One Shot International Short Film Festival, Armenia, 2016 (Best Armenian Short Film)
- PICURT - Mostra de Cinema de Muntanya dels Pirineus, Spain, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Ischia Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (Best Short Film)