Spirit of Fire

Spirit of Fire

2026

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CHIAKOKONOBA

Spirit of Fire
2026
international
debut film
festival

Short Film Competition

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CHIAKOKONOBA

The Georgian provinces. A superstitious landfill worker learns that his mother is deadly ill. Taking a joke of the local healer at face value, he goes in search of a miraculous spring flowing somewhere far in the forest.

Director: ANTON VERETENNIKOV
Screenwriter: ANTON VERETENNIKOV
Producer: MARIA STRELCHUK, NATO GABUNIA, GRIGOL DJANASHIA
Cinematographer: ANTON VERETENNIKOV
Music: PETER LEVCHENKO
Cast: GEORGY MIRINASHVILI
Russia – Georgia
2025
12 min.

Director: ANTON VERETENNIKOV

Born in 1998 in Staraya Kupavna. He finished the Moscow School of New Cinema (film directing lab of Dmitry
Mamulia). Director of photography for a number of independent films, including the feature “I Am Your God: Shouting on Your Backs” by Artur Komissarov, as well as shorts “A City Far Away” by Svetlana Gertman and “Monster” by Olga Melanich. In 2021 he directed the short documentary “Copper”, which was included in the list of the online platform Artdocmedia.