CITY OF OWLS
SHORT FILM
Fiction | 13‘ | France, Germany, Italy | 2026
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On the last evening before her departure, Vera is putting her small sister to bed. To hide the real reason of her leaving, she tells her a bedtime fairy tale instead. It’s the story of a city swallowed by an eternal night.
PRODUCED BY
Moderato
*Eversince GmbH
Il Varco
8Production
Cattive Produzioni
Oudeis
C41
MAIN CAST
Vera Engalycheva
Lera Yacenko
Mikhail Isaev
Anastasiia Bakhtyreva
Andrey Bystrushkin
CREW
Director, editor: Zhenia Kazankina
Screenplay: Zhenia Kazankina, Sofia Boteva, Andrea Gatopoulos
Producers: Clémence Crépin Néel, Igor Courtecuisse, Andrea Gatopoulos, Pavel Karykhalin, Sergei Yahontov, Andrea Gatopoulos, Laura Catalano, Silvio Giannini, Marco Mingolla, Stefano Schiavone
Cinematography: Luda Kuropiatnikova
Production design: Aleksandra Smirnova
Costume design: Sasha Nguyen
Hair & make-up: Nastya Tenderova
Casting: Jenya Savelieva, Zhenia Kazankina
VFX & CG: Andrei Bulatchik
Sound design: Dmitry Krupenya
Music composer: 96 Kbps
FESTIVALSÂ
La Semaine de la Critique — Cannes Film Festival
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