Rafael Cherkaski
Directing
Biography
Rafael Cherkaski is a french artist and director born in 1984 in Lyon. He went to live in the DOM-TOM during his youth where he became interested in art. He returns to France and keeps his passion which will push him to go to a school of applied art. After a few months of boredom, Rafael Cherkaski decides to leave his school and return to the Beaux-Arts in Paris. This school being filled with vast fields, he will take advantage of it to make many performances and short films. In 2013, he directed his first feature film, « Sorgoï Prakov, my european dream ». In 2017, he appeared in the last episode of Victor Bonnefoy's web-series « Unknown Movies » in his own role.
Known For
A journalist from an Eastern European country arrives in Paris to start a tour of European capitals. His intention is to make a documentary about the European dream. Between fascination and difficulty of adaptation, Sorgoï struggles to complete his project and his expedition drives him to a devastating state of madness.
Descent Into Darkness: My European Nightmare
Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother's beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it - or she will kick them out.
Mother Schmuckers
5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
Alter Ego Film Project
A documentary about the life and work of Rafael Cherkaski, extraordinary artist, painter, graffiti artist, singer, actor and director of the cult film "Sorgoï Prakov" and member of Sdorvia Desko.
Searching for Cherkaski
Five childhood friends reunite for the first time after the death of their classmate Pedro, an unconditional Shrek fan. They are entrusted with an important mission: to honor the memory of the deceased by scattering his ashes at Shrekfest, a festival in honor of the green ogre and taking place in Wisconsin, USA.
Shreklife
"Quarantines" is a collective film made at the time of the first confinement of 2020. Ten international directors, ten perspectives that intersect in the same period, with their authentic and more atypical universes than each other. A work that unites in isolation and expresses the impalpable. This film is a challenge, a bet: that of creation which persists despite everything within the constraints of the health crisis.
Quarantaines
Robert, 40 years old, lives in the city of Strasbourg, but he seems to have some issues with Strasbourg's nightlife. In reaction, he takes photos and videos of people leaving the bars or the nightclubs and he publishes their images on the Internet in order to denounce the night's 'noise pollution' of his city. Some people wants to have fun on the weekend; Robert wants to sleep well. A small film crew meets Robert in order to understand his approach.
La capitale du bruit
Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$umption decide to run for presidential election of 2022 to fix the country. He meets his electorate and other candidates to spread the word : Work, Obey, Consume !
En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
A horror movie shoot goes wrong.
ACT/PÉ
How do disabled or impaired workers perceive global warming? In the North-East of France, a succession of interviews in an ESAT, a sort of factory in a protected environment, leads these atypical people to question climate change and its consequences.
Whacked
Two men, William and Armin, meet on a cannibal site. The past and the future combine and the anxieties of William Sokoto, the vegetarian cannibal rises.
Sokoto in the CannibalCafe
The disappointments of a filmmaker cloistered in a luxury hotel, finding himself unable to return home.
HOTEL FODER
Marta, a young girl, finds herself locked in a library at night. The books begin to come to life and the real and the unreal merge.
La nuit littéraire
It may be Christmas, but Gregory doesn't care. All he knows is that he's having a really bad night. So he drinks...
La valse du pigeon
Pierre and Manu, accompanied by a cameraman, go to Bugarach with the aim of building a shelter to survive the end of the world.
Objectif Bugarach
The evolution of a man in nature.
Glarustrio
Gus Mackinson, financial engineer at Bergsons, is in charge of the development of Goose, a predictive analysis software. However, by anticipating the future too much, Gus finds himself incapable of living in the present moment.
Goose
A first film called "narrative", where the story in black, white and grey, of a flying camera pursuing a filmic nightmare...
Troublant
The film immerses us in an evocative dance of bodies communicating in the vast placenta of our atmosphere. This visually stunning film explores movement, connection, and the mystery of the self in motion.