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SHORT SUMMER

• Director: Nastia Korkia
• GERMANY, FRANCE, SERBIA  / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 101' / Russian, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Nastia Korkia, Mikhail Bushkov
• Director of Photography: Evgeny Rodin
• Editing: Benjamin Mirguet
• Cast: Maiia Pleshkevich, Yakov Karykhalin, Aleksandr Karpushin, Vesna Jovanovic, Alexander Feklistov
• Producer: Dirk Decker, Andrea Schütte, Natalia Drozd
• Co-Producer:
• Production Co.: Tamtam
• World Sales: Totem Films

2025 Venice Best Debut Film
2025 Chicago Gold Hugo–New Directors

Eight-year-old Katya spends the summer with her grandparents in the Russian countryside. Time stands still, adults remain silent, and in the background, a war destroys lives. Meanwhile, kids are growing up and the clouds are flying. Nastia Korkia got inspiration for the poignant film from her own childhood experiences, interweaving an idyllic summer of a child with echoes of a distant war ––a threat that is always there, present but not close. Shot on 16mm film for dreamlike landscapes and harsh realities, Short Summer is ‘both cruel and poetic,’ according to critics, ‘masterful, a truly remarkable piece of cinema.’

This film is screened with the support of Goethe-Istanbul and Kino 2026. 

This film is screened with the support of German Films.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.