Natalya MESHCHANINOVA
Наталия МЕЩАНИНОВА
Natalia MECHTCHANINOVA
Russia, 2021, short film 
My Mother's Penguins
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Пингвины моей мамы

 

 Les Pingouins de ma mère

 Pingviny moyey mamy

 
Directed by : Natalya MESHCHANINOVA (Наталия МЕЩАНИНОВА)
Writing credits : Zaka ABDRAKHMANOVA (Зака АБДРАХМАНОВА), Natalya MESHCHANINOVA (Наталия МЕЩАНИНОВА), Yevgeni SIDOROV (Евгений СИДОРОВ)
 
Cast
Makar KHLEBNIKOV (Макар ХЛЕБНИКОВ ) ...Gosha
Aleksandra URSULIAK (Александра УРСУЛЯК) ...mother
Aleksey AGRANOVICH (Алексей АГРАНОВИЧ) ...father
Nadezhda IVANOVA (Надежда ИВАНОВА) ...Nastya
Pavel POPOV (Павел ПОПОВ) ...Roma
 
Cinematography : Yevgeni TSVETKOV (Евгений ЦВЕТКОВ)
Production design : Georgi KOLOTYGIN (Георгий КОЛОТЫГИН)
Editing : Daria DANILOVA (Дарья ДАНИЛОВА), Yulia БАТАЛОВА (Юлия БАТАЛОВА)
Produced by : Valery FEDOROVICH (Валерий ФЕДОРОВИЧ), Igor MISHIN (Игорь МИШИН), Aleksandr PLOTNIKOV (Александр ПЛОТНИКОВ)
Production : Look Film, Daily Heroes
Release date in Russia : 16/10/2021
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Best Serial Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2021

Note :
1 season, 7 episodes, 37 min each.

Plot synopsis
Gosha, a 15-year-old high school student from Moscow, has a lot of problems: fights at school, unhappy love and misunderstanding from his parents. Gosha's parents are obsessed with the idea of saving all the children left without a family or a home, they have already adopted three children and are preparing to welcome a fourth into their home. Gosha feels he no longer has a place in his home and in his parents' hearts. Performing in a stand up club is his only breath of fresh air, an attempt to talk about his problems and find a solution. And for Gosha's parents, this public confession of their son shocks them and leads to family psychotherapy that will help them become aware of their problems.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Nataliia Meshchaninova: My Mother’s Penguins (Pingviny moei mamy, 2021), Anna NIEMAN, Kinokultura, 2022
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2022
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2021