38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Fire-Brand

Gar'

Sergey Kavtaradze

Image Fire-Brand
Russia
2008 Fiction 20 min
Nikolaï and his son live in an industrial provincial town. Nikolaï is a labourer on a local factory and an active trade-unionist. Labourers organize meetings to claim the payment of their wages, spurred on by the struggle between local proprietors and Moscow businessmen...
With : Dmitriy Masluk, Ivan Malakhov
Screenplay : Sergey Kavtaradze
Image : Grigoriy Apalayas
Sound : Boris Novikov
Editing : Sergey Kavtaradze, Dariya Khmelnickaya
Production : Postgraduate School of Scriptwriters and Film directors
Sergey Kavtaradze was born 1977. In 1994 he entered the Moscow State University (MGU), which he graduated from in 2002 with a degree in historic sciences. In 2005 he joined the Higher Director's & Screenwriter's School in Moscow, in the directing section, and the workshop of Kverikadze & Dobrovolski, which he successfully graduated from in 2007. He is the author of the book Political Conflict in the Post-Soviet Area (2005). Gar' is his graduation film.