Liubov ARKUS
Любовь АРКУС
Lioubov ARKUS
Russia, 2012, 110mn 
Colour, documentary
Anton tut ryadom
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Антон тут рядом

 

 Anton's Right Here

 Anton est ici, tout près

 
Directed by : Liubov ARKUS (Любовь АРКУС)
Writing credits : Liubov ARKUS (Любовь АРКУС)
Cinematography : Alisher KHAMIDKHODZHAEV (Алишер ХАМИДХОДЖАЕВ)
Produced by : Aleksandr GOLUTVA (Александр ГОЛУТВА), Sergey SELIANOV (Сергей СЕЛЬЯНОВ)
 

Awards :
Best documentary Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2013
Best documentary "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2013
Best documentary Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2013
Best First Documentary Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2012
Special Prize International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Novaya Gazeta Award International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Best author documentary National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Prize Miron CHERNEKO Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2012

Plot synopsis
The main character of the film is an autist boy. He lives between the flaky hut in the suburb of a bit city and the mental health hospital. Anton comes into the eye shot of the camera at that same moment when he is going to become a patient of the psychoneurological boarding school – a place where people with a diagnosis similar to his do not live for a long time. Author-camera-hero. The distance between them diminishes every minute. The author has to enter into the shot and become the character of this story. But this story is not about how one person helped another, but about how one person recognized himself in another one; that in each of us lives the Other person, whom we have to kill in ourselves on a daily basis in order to survive.
 

commentaries
RUSSIA BEYOND : Sept films documentaires russes qui vous captiveront jusqu'au bout, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Документальное кино. Итоги года [2012], Yekaterina VIZGALOVA, kino-teatr.ru, 2013
Liubov’ Arkus: Anton's Right Here (Anton tut riadom, 2012), Greg DOLGOPOLOV, kinokultura.com, 2013
Un film pour parler d'autisme [A propos du film Anton est ici, tout près de Lioubov Arkus], Daria DONINA, larussiedaujourdhui.fr, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2014
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2013
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2013
- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2013
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2013
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2013
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2013
- Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2013
- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2013
- New Directors New Films, New York (USA), 2013
- Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), Vienna (Austria), 2012
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival : PÖFF, Tallinn (Estonia), 2012
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2012
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2012
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2012
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2012
- International Festival of Contemporary Cinema «Zavtra / 2morrow», Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2012
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2012

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