Darkness, height, loneliness... What puts us in danger in today's troubled world? A short experimental film about the fears and anxieties that plague today's teenagers. And what are you afraid of?

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• Movie block: 11. On the Soul: Forms (14+)
• Competition category: TEENS JUNIORS
• Year of origin: 2024
• Country of origin: Kyrgystan
• Duration : 13:36 min
• Authors / staff:

  Kolektiv studentů / Collective of students:
  Akmarap, Almaz, Alisa, Aruke, Meerim, Adel'
  
  Lektoři / Instructors:
  Masha Gol'm, Dante Rustav

• Other information:

  The authors are a collective of students under 16 year of age. The film was screened at 14 film festivals and received recognition and awards at many of those: including the Best Experiment Film award at the 8th Pražský filmový kufr festival in Prague, Best Internation short film award at International Film Festival in Ińsko Poland as well as Best visual solution at Nomad 2024: The Infinite Sky" festival in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan as well as received the Main award at the 26th YOUKI International Youth Media Festival in Austria.
  
  Children laboratory ATOM which produced this filmis a unique attempt to combine several types of art – theater and animation. This is an opportunity for children and teenagers to tell their story related to personal experience (an important point is the documentary basis).

  The ATOM laboratory was created by two authors – Masha Golm (Kazakhstan) and Dante Rustav (Uzbekistan) and first held in autumn 2023 in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). The ATOM laboratory – the first opportunity in Central Asia – for children, through workshops, to engage in experiments to find a new "film language" and combine different genres.

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