The last few weeks were successful for East Silver Caravan titles. A New Shift by Jindřich Andrš got three awards at Ji.hlava IDFF (including our Silver Eye Award) and two awards at DOK Leipzig. Wolves at the Borders by Martin Páv got Special Mention at Ji.hlava IDFF and "Anthropology and Environment Prize" at Festival international Jean Rouch - Comité du film ethnographique. Both films were developed within IDF's Ex Oriente Film workshop. Find out about festival screenings of East Silver Caravan titles.
Wolves at the Borders (dir. Martin Páv, 2020, 79 min., CZ)
The documentary looks at the contradictory reactions to the arrival of wolves: while for some people they offer hope of making the nature healthier, others see them only as enemies killing helpless farm animals who cannot be effectively protected. Are we able to coexist with wolves and with each other?
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Cottbus
Tallin Black Nights Film Festival
Town of Glory (dir. Dmitry Bogolyubov, 2019, 88 min., RU, CZ, DE)
Nothing interesting happens in the small town of Yelnya on Russia’s western edge. The locals are leaving en masse and those who stay have few joys in life. One is the victory over fascism. At the start of the war Stalin allowed the town be symbolically freed – at the cost of enormous loss of life – so as to inspire hope in his people and strengthen the spirit of heroism.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Cottbus
Kiruna - A Brand New World (dir. Greta Stocklassa, 2019, 87 min., CZ)
Located way above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna was built on a great iron ore deposit, and created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometers to the east.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Doku Baku (opening film)
Buzău International Film Festival
When the Persimmons Grew (dir. Hilal Baydarov, 2019, 118 min., AZ, AT)
Mother and son meet after 7 years in rural Azerbaijan. Immobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Doku Baku
Pripyat Piano (dir. Eliška Cílková, 2020, 18', CZ)
What would we be able to see if we could hear better? The story of a tragedy told by sounds, music and lyrics featuringbandoned pianos standing in the Chernobyl Zone.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival
Boundaries (dir. Yuliya Shatun, 2019, 29 min., BY)
A journey film through four cities, the present and the past. Minsk, Moscow and the cities of childhood shot by the director and her father 25 years ago are merged into one voice message to an unknown person.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Doku Baku
Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Film Festival
#sandrainuganda (dir. Filip Remunda, 2019, 70´, CZ)
A Czech NGO invited Sandra Kisić, a twenty-six-year old influencer of Bosnian origin, to come to Uganda. She was accompanied by a Dutch volunteer who already was on her umpteenth mission. Sandra, on the other hand, saw poverty and technological backwardness for the first time in reality, not just on her cell phone that she practically did not put down.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Oczyiobjektywy Film Festival
Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival
How Big is the Galaxy? (dir. Ksenia Elyan, 2018, ES, RU)
Zakhar lives among the vast Arctic spaces of Siberia, 100 miles away from human dwellings. He is 7, but he has his own reindeer and tundra for pasture. One day his nomad family is joined by a teacher, sent by the authorities to explain to the kids why why they need math and Putin.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Oczyiobjektywy Film Festival
Buzău International Film Festival
Daily Manure (dir. Nikola Krutilová, 2019, 24 min., CZ)
Birds arrive at piles of bread and feed themselves. Bulls roar and press in the pens, occasionally waking up, helplessly walking around watching their comrades. Trucks carry tons of excess vegetables and bread. The cycle of creation and extinction seems endless. The ramp that feeds the biogas station buzzes continuously and pushes the mass into the bowels of the fermeter.
Festival screenings Oct-Dec:
Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival (premiere)
[Updated on Nov 26]
