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64 films from Armenia, Russia, Iran, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Poland, France, Ukraine, and Belarus are represented at the 3th edition of the Moscow International Charity Film Festival Radiant Angel. Overall, the festival received 321 submissions for the feature, documentary animation as well as long and short competitions, Ria Novosti reported.

According to the source, 28:94 Local Time - the latest feature by Armenian filmmaker and scriptwriter David Safarian  - is included in the competition program.

The film is about the life of Katya (Yana Drouz) and Tigran (Ashot Adamyan), a middle-aged couple of intellectuals who used to work in the theatre, and their everyday efforts to survive cold and despair of the 1990s amid the severe energy crisis and the national situation of instability following the dismantling of the USSR.

The story of the family becomes one of their community, which comes together in order to fix an old boiler room that would help them to overcome the harsh winter. Around this common goal, the two main characters introduce a series of quirky and iconic characters, with whom they share similar hopes and fears, but who all have different ways of approaching the situation. As Safarian once described the film is about unbearable living conditions in which humans struggle to save their faces.

To note, Safarian’s film received a “Special Jury Mention” at the 13th International Golden Apricot Film Festival.

The source informs that the professional Jury is to assess the films and the winners will be announced on November 6.

In the frames of Radiant Angel festival flashback screenings, master classes and artistic meetings are envisaged.