The Blood
About the film
Title: The Blood
Title in Russian: Кровь
Production company: 317 Film
Country of production: Russia
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 59 min.
Web-site of the film: deckert-distribution.com Film crew
Scriptwriter: Sergey Vinokurov
Film director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Producer: Alina Rudnitskaya
Director of photography: Alexander Filippov, Yuri Gaytsel, Sergey Maksimov, Aleksandr Demianenko
Sound director: Alexey Antonov
Music
Olafur Arnalds
Logline
For some people in Russia today going to give blood is the only way to make money. The film by Alina Rudnitskaya shows the merry-go-round of life through people and their blood.Synopsis
An old, beat-up minivan with a red cross on the window is driving around the Leningrad Oblast. It is a Russian “bloodmobile” that sets up a makeshift blood donor station in various public buildings. The minivan is manned by a team of seven people: a driver, a cashier, a doctor, three nurses, and a nurses’ aid. This group drives all over the region buying blood from local people. Blood donations are worth 850 Russian rubles, which is equivalent to approximately 20 EUR. For some people in Russia today going to give blood is the only way to make money.Blood is its own bizarre metaphorical litmus test. The merry-go-round of life shown through people and their blood. They give blood, and they receive it…
A metaphysical trip into the deepest reaches of Russia.
| Festival and awards | |||
| Date | Festival | Form of participation | Award |
| November, 2013 | IDFA Amsterdam 2013 | Feature-length competition | |
| December, 2013 | ARTDOCFEST, Russia | Competition | Gran Prix |
| December, 2013 | INPUT-2013 | Participant | |
| January, 2014 | Docpoint IDFF, Finland | Work like a charm section | |
| February, 2014 | The Russian Film Critics Award "White Elephant", Moscow | Competition programme | Best Documentary Film |
| April, 2014 | The Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, Nika Award | Competition programme | Nominee Best Documentary |
| March, 2014 | DOCUDAYS UA, Kiev | Competition programme | |
| March, 2014 | Tempo Film Festival, Stockholm | Participant | |
| April, 2014 | Festival "Movement", Omsk, Russia | Participant | |
| April, 2014 | IV Russian-German festival of documentary films in Kaliningrad, Russia | Participant | |
| May, 2014 | Krakow Film Festival | Competition programme | Special Jury Mention |
| May, 2014 | Festival EDOC13, Ecuador | Participant | |
| June, 2014 | Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2014 | Competition programme | MAIN AWARD. THE GREAT GATE OF FREEDOM |
| June, 2014 | Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival | Competition programme | Main Prize for the Best Documentary |
| July, 2014 | XXVIII Pärnu Film Festival, July 14 - 20th in Estonia. | Competition programme | |
| August, 2014 | International Festival Window Into Europe, Vyborg, Russia | Competition programme | Best documentary |
| September, 2014 | International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana | Competition programme | |
| September, 2014 | Festival "Message to Man", Saint Petersburg, Russia | Competition programme | |
| September, 2014 | International Film Festival Pacific Meridian | Competition programme | Special Jury Prize |
| October, 2014 | BFI London Film Festival | Competition programme | |
| October, 2014 | Astra Film Festival, Hungary | Competition programme | Best International Documentary Film |
| October, 2014 | Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York | Competition programme | Grand Prix |
| October, 2014 | dokumentArt, Neubranderburg, Germany | Competition programme | Grand Prix |
| October, 2014 | Inconvenient Films,Vilnius | Competition programme | Special Jury Mention |
| October, 2014 | The Contemporary Science Film Festival 360° | Participant | |
| October, 2014 | EAST SILVER 2014, 18th Jihlava IDFF | Competition programme | Silver Eye award at the 11th East Silver Market in Jihlava in the mid-length documentary category |
| October, 2014 | CineDoc-Tbilisi - Documentary film festival | Competition programme | Best Documentary |
| October, 2014 | 9 DOCSDF International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City | Competition programme | Jury Prize |
| November, 2014 | "Escales Documentaires", International Documentary of Creation Film Festival, France | Competition programme | Special Jury Mention |
| November, 2014 | CAMERIMAGE IFF, POLAND | Competition programme | Best Cinematography |
| November, 2014 | Minsk International Film Festival LISTAPAD | Competition programme | Jury Prize |
| November, 2014 | Anthropological Film Festival,Jerusalem | Participant | |
| December, 2014 | Watch Docs Warsaw HRFF | Competition programme | |
| TV screenings | |
| Date | TV-channel |
| January, 2014 | 24_doc channel |
| 6 January, 2014 | 24_doc channel |
| 17 March, 2014 | 24_doc channel |
| 22 March, 2014 | 24_doc channel |
Creators
About the film director Alina Rudnitskaya:
Alina Rudnitskaya
Was born 1976 Murmanskaya. obll, Russia. A graduate of St. Petersburg University for Arts and Culture, Department of Film Directing, started her career as an Assistant Director at St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Her first films, “Letter” and “Communal Recidence” were well-received both in Russia and abroad and marked with awards at many domestic and international film festivals.
Her works has been shown worldwide and got Grand Prixes in festivals such as Leipzig, Madrid, Oberhausen, Zagreb, Berlin, Belgrad, Moscow.
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