Dogs Are Not Barking in Finland
What would you do if the world was going to an end tomorrow? What would be your best memory? What would you regret? What would you wish to save? If you were to write down your story about our world and send it to future civilizations, what vision would you create? Dogs are not barking in Finland is a portrait of our world the day before the Apocalypse.
This unique documentary, set in four European capitals, is a story of crisis of the Western world, perceptions and evolution of concepts of Europe over the last decades. The leitmotif of the entire film is a quickly approaching end of the world. Main characters of the film, representing the 30-year-olds, living in Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris are being confronted with Doomsday scenarios, to speak about the world we are about to lose. What went wrong? What was our biggest achievement? What is worth saving? What destroyed us? The narrative includes original documentary footage and re-created archive footage as well as sublime contemporary portraits of four cities: Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Main speakers, similar to the characters from the famous Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch, show us in a new way the unstable world taking a turn that nobody expected. Why did we lose patience with this world? How can we change that? Or maybe, as a civilization, we are truly doomed?
This unique documentary, set in four European capitals, is a story of crisis of the Western world, perceptions and evolution of concepts of Europe over the last decades. The leitmotif of the entire film is a quickly approaching end of the world. Main characters of the film, representing the 30-year-olds, living in Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris are being confronted with Doomsday scenarios, to speak about the world we are about to lose. What went wrong? What was our biggest achievement? What is worth saving? What destroyed us? The narrative includes original documentary footage and re-created archive footage as well as sublime contemporary portraits of four cities: Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Main speakers, similar to the characters from the famous Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch, show us in a new way the unstable world taking a turn that nobody expected. Why did we lose patience with this world? How can we change that? Or maybe, as a civilization, we are truly doomed?