38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Meat
Russia
2002 Fiction 14 min
Love is the culmination of lust, a word most often found in cheap romance novels. Real life is much more difficult and terrible. It crushes each person's destiny like a piece of meat in a blender. A young boy affronts the cruel world and becomes a man.
With : Vanya Kononov, Maria Poroshina, Alexey Maklakov
Screenplay : Slava Ross
Image : Maxim Shinkorenko
Sound : Anton Kirsanov
Production : VGIK
Slava Ross was born in Siberia and studied theatre at Novosibirsk while working as an actor with the "Red Torch" company. He entered the VGIK in 1999 and made two films there: And summer will become and Meat, which received the Best Director prize at the Poitiers festival.