The Three
Anna Melikyan has stood out with various successful shorts and full-length films which take a cynical and humourous look on close relationships and the burning topic of love.
That’s the case this time as well: there are a man and a woman … and another woman. The triangle is made up of characters who are no longer in their first youth, but who are no less passionate.
The characters are superbly played by Russian superstar Konstantin Khabenskiy, renowned film and TV star Viktoriya Isakova and young Moscow theatre star Yulia Peresild from Pskov.
The strength of the film can, indeed, be said to lie in the actors’ role solutions with which they approach the relationship mess without giving a chance for the film to become a sentimental or soap opera style farce. Rather, the director takes a feminist, yet still a motherly and warm approach to a story where the main male character has to pay a fair price for his doubts and indecision.
Dagmar Raudam
Anna Melikyan (b. 1976) is an Azerbaijan-Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and TV director/producer, who works in Russia. Graduated from the film directing course at VGIK in 2002. She is best known for the second full-length film "Mermaid" (2007), which received many international and national awards, including Best Director Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin FF. After her participation at Sundance and Berlin, she was listed in the TOP-10 of most perspective film directors by "Variety" magazine. "Three" is Melikyan's sixth full-length feature.
Mars (2004), Rusalka (Merineitsi, PÖFF 2007), Zvezda (Täht, PÖFF 2014), Pro lyubov (About Love, 2015), Pro lyubov. Tolko dlya vzroslykh (About Love. For Adults Only, 2017), Feya (Fairy, 2019), Troe (Three, 2020)
Grand Prix for The Best Film, grant of 20 000 euros from the city of Tallinn, Award for Best Director, grant of 5000€ from Alexela
