Documentary Programme

The fragility of the peaceful order, the boiling socio-political cauldron with its lid closed, the search of descendants for answers to the riddles left by their revolutionary ancestors, the attempt to deconstruct the myth of the past are the palette of the documentary program. In the presented program the manner in which the documentary genre is performed is varied: animation, chronicle, voyeurism, and even video art. The dramaturgy is built on the meeting of youth and old age, present and past, impotence and revolution. The presented works are united by the human dimension or the subjective optics of an observed theater or vanity fair. We observe the pathos and the behind-the-scenes state celebration, the horror of a troubled time, and the destruction of the stage and scenery.

The total length of the films is 69 minutes.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Ville Ilmari Seppänen (Finland, 23 min; 2022)

Happy Independence Day is a film about citizens of Helsinki celebrating the Independence Day of Finland on the 6 of December 2021. The film draws a portrait of the citizens of Helsinki during the Independence Day of Finland in 2021. The film follows different groups, like Antifa, “let’s close the borders” torch march, ultra right wing, anarchists and Helsinki against the nazis demonstration, as well as other citizens observing the events on the streets of Helsinki. Independence Day is the biggest police operation of the year in Finland. The kids following the events are commenting on the happenings with their own philosophies about Star Wars, religion and humanity in general. The film raises a question about the abstract concept of national identity, why it is important, and why it means such different things to different people. The questions about national identity seem to tear people living in Finland apart, and at the same time it seems that kids, the citizens of the future, don’t understand the concept of national identity in the same way as adults do. < Website >

SO FAR, SO CLOSE

Nicolas Vimenet (France, 27 min; 2022)

Nicolas, a Chinese expatriate in France for twenty years, goes to the bedside of his grandmother, former head of the Maoist regime who has fallen ill. During his stay in his hometown, he rediscovers the family apartment and the strong character of this elderly lady, determined to take care of her disabled son despite the reproaches of the family.

FOTONOVELA

Alberto E. García (Spain, 4 min; 2022)

An old photograph triggers a search for identity. < Website >

BAGHDAD GRAPHIC

D.K. Odessa (Iraq, 15 min; 2022)

Based on fragments from a never finished graphic novel, Baghdad Graphic presents an unflinching account of an Iraqi artist and teacher desperate to survive the invasion of his country. After losing everything – his school, his job, and his relationship with his family, he turns to journalism as a way to tell the outside world the stories that nobody else will tell. An intensely intimate portrait of the costs of war.

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Animation Programme

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Belarusian Films

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Fiction Programme

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