38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Otpusk
Russia
2019 Fiction 12 min
Artyom, a regular butchery worker, has loft his way in life. He suddenly comes up with an unusual way out of his crisis.
With : Andrius Darela, Alexander Zotov, Daria Rumyantseva, Ion Doze
Screenplay : Anton Sazonov
Image : Aydar Sharipov
Sound : Rostislav Kaptur, Ruslan Khuseyn
Editing : Vadim Crasnitsky, Anton Sazonov, Ilya Lyamshev
Music : Dmitry Evgrafov
Production : After Hours Films, Mikhail Marizov, Ekaterina Telegina, Anton Sazonov, Vadim Byrkin, Anastasia Pelevina, Jelena Iljushenok
International sales: After Hours Films
Born in Russia in 1989, Anton Sazonov obtained a degree in economics before graduating from the Pro Arte School of Art Journalism. He also finished a directing course at the Moscow Film School, in the workshop of Alexey Popogrebsky. The short film The Impasse (2017) is his graduation work from film school. Since then he has had a directing internship with Kirill Serebrennikov while staging the play Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin at the Gogol Centre Theatre. Sazonov is currently working on his first feature film.