Belarus 2023 11 min Russian original version with German and English subtitles
German premiere
by Yuri Semashko
Script: Yuri Semashko, Animation: Anya Senkevich, Yuri Semashko, Sound: Anton Korzhenevsky, Narrators: Sanotenko, Sasha Kuten, Alisa Romanovskaya, Yuri Semashko
German premiere
by Yuri Semashko
Script: Yuri Semashko, Animation: Anya Senkevich, Yuri Semashko, Sound: Anton Korzhenevsky, Narrators: Sanotenko, Sasha Kuten, Alisa Romanovskaya, Yuri Semashko
A timid supermarket security guard gets into a fatal confrontation with a very confident criminal element. Unfortunately, the villain also lives above him and loves karaoke.
Yuri Semashko, born in Minsk/Belarus in 1993, is an engineer by education. He has mastered the art of filmmaking on his own, making short films and puppet cartoons. In 2022 and 2023, his short film GARBAGE HEAD won the Belarusian competition program of the Bulbamovie festival in Poland and was selected for the international program of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen/Germany. Furthermore, he received three “Red heather” awards from Belarusian film critics.
Filmography: 2013 THE MAN OF ASHES, 2015 THE ATTIC, 2017 IT WON’T HURT, 2019 THE BODY; THE PRISONERS OF DIRT, 2020 ULTRA-SHORT STORIES, 2021 WHEN I WAS GENERAL, 2022 GARBAGE HEAD, 2023 BLOOD AND KARAOKE ( all short films)
Filmography: 2013 THE MAN OF ASHES, 2015 THE ATTIC, 2017 IT WON’T HURT, 2019 THE BODY; THE PRISONERS OF DIRT, 2020 ULTRA-SHORT STORIES, 2021 WHEN I WAS GENERAL, 2022 GARBAGE HEAD, 2023 BLOOD AND KARAOKE ( all short films)
Contact
Yuri Semashko
semashko.yuriy@gmail.com