27 July 12:00
Pavilion, New Holland Island
Zugzwang
Year: 2017
Director: Sergey Ramz
Country: Russia
Duration: 12 minutes
The final match of a commercial chess tournament should go as expected: a multi-year champion wins the pot every year, easily beating all the challengers. However, this year a challenger has prepared an unusual strategy.
Sergey Ramz
Film directorBorn in 1985 Moscow. In 2007, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. Lived for around a year in China. Since 2008, he has been filming adverts. In 2016, he graduated from the directing department of the Moscow Film School (course of Alexei Popogrebsky). The film Zugzwang was his thesis work. In 2017, together with Alexei Popogrebsky, he worked as co-director on the advertising video for the Thaw exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, later they continued to collaborate on commercial projects. Currently completing the script for his debut full-length feature.