The Boundaries of Fidelity by Diana Fabiánová
During Docu Talents from the East 2022, nine new creative documentary projects will be presented as part CineLink Industry Days on August 15 at Hotel Europe – Atrium from 14.30-15.45.
The most promising project receives the Docu Talent Award, offered in co-operation with Current Time TV. The award is accompanied by a prize valued at US$5,000. The in-kind DAFilms Distribution Award 2022 (€3000) will be awarded to one of the projects and will cover its release on DAFilms (including Americas, Europe, Asia) for two years.
The 2022 jury consists of Natalia Arshavskaya (Current Time TV), Martichka Bozilova (Agitprop), Ben Dalton (Screen International), Nina Numankadić (DAFilms), Jarmila Outratová (Ji.hlava IDFF).
The Docu Talents has been organized and curated by the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival since 2005.
Marek Hovorka, director of the Ji.hlava IDFF, comments: “The selection of films included in Docu Talents from the East that are being completed by the emerging generation of Eastern European filmmakers is formally very diverse and explores social, political and purely personal topics. It is surprising that a region often associated primarily with rural films from poor regions can geographically encompass literally the entire world: from Tokyo and Iran to Europe, New York and Salvador.
“Our selection pays special attention to two Ukrainian women filmmakers. While Olha Tsybulska started filming You Know It’s Going To Be About War spontaneously at the outset of the war, the very personal Dad’s Lullaby by Lesia Diak looks back on the war after several years and shows how it can destroy even an exceptional human personality.
“All of the selected films do not only explore the phenomena of our day-and-age, but also ask questions about how our choices shape our own future – whether as an individual, a particular social group or an entire society.”
Selected projects:
- What’s to Be Done? Croatia, 75 mins. Director: Goran Dević. Producer: Hrvoje Osvadić. Production Company: Petnaesta umjetnost. Is it possible to be a worker and revolt against the capitalism? Is the outcome of every possible riot known in advance?
- So Far From Mikulov Czech Republic/Slovakia, 75 mins. Director: Marie Dvořáková. Producer: Pavel Berčík. Production Company: Evolution Films, s.r.o. A small-town photographer from Europe takes New York by storm. But at what price?
- Yoyogi Estonia/Japan, 74 mins. Director: Max Golomidov. Producer: Volia Chajkouskaya. Production Company: Allfilm. A witty and sensitive observation of people visiting the Central Park of Tokyo – Yoyogi.
- Street Poets Poland, 60 mins. Director: Edyta Adamczak and Michał Mądracki. Producer: Edyta Adamczak. Production Company: MML studio. Young, urban poets of the Brazilian favela in the city of Salvador. Jeopardised youth. A film about non-material wealth, which becomes a source of unusual human power and lets us believe that we all have this power within us.
- Between Revolutions Romania/Iran/Croatia/Qatar, 71 mins.Director: Vlad Petri. Producer: Elena Martín. Production Company: Activ Docs. Two women, former classmates and friends, one Romanian and one Iranian, are writing letters to each other, reflecting on their lives, between two revolutions that changed their lives and societies forever.
- The Boundaries of Fidelity Slovakia/Czech Republic, 80 mins. Director: Diana Fabiánová. Producer: Silvia Panáková. Production Company: Dayhey, s.r.o. A married couple’s search for a way to preserve a long-term, honest relationship in an environment where infidelity is normal practice.
- Dad’s Lullaby Ukraine, 72 mins. Director: Lesia Diak. Producer: Lesia Diak. He fought for his country, now he is fighting for his family.
- You Know It’s Going To Be About War (working title) Ukraine, 33 mins. Director: Olha Tsybulska. Producer: John Emil Richardsen. Production Company: Montevideo Tromsø AS. A reflection about survivor’s guilt, traumas and how war is the new normality for young creative people in Ukraine.
- Tomorrow Hungary/Portugal/Belgium, Iran, 50 mins. Director: Khosro Khosravi. Producer: Khosro Khosravi. Production Company: DocNomads. A middle-aged divorced Budapest man who eagerly deals with organizing his life after separation in his big house, on the other hand, finds it hardly possible to avoid loneliness.
Since 2005, Docu Talents has been a launch pad for a number of documentaries by both renowned and emerging directors such as Laila Pakalniņa, Vladimir Mansky, Bartek Konopka, Piotr Stasik, Peter Kerekes, Dmitrii Kalashnikov and Helena Třeštíková. Films presented at Docu Talents in the past have had world and international premieres at major film festivals including in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno and Rotterdam.
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