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THE BORDER

Daria Sliusarenko
FR, 2025, 13 Min

On a train leaving to Kazakhstan, three young men are stopped by border patrol, forbidden to leave the Russian Federation, even as the officer mockingly notes that they “suddenly all have grandmothers in Kazakhstan”. One of them, Petya, was called for mobilization but he refuses to fight. Instead, he decides to escape and hide in a nearby town, only to find danger waiting at every turn. A tense, powerful, politically charged depiction of an individual’s desperate fight to escape.

FFC

Performance

2025-11-07 | 18:30
Weltspiegel Großer Saal
2025-11-09 | 12:00
Weltspiegel Saal 2

Text: Nir Ferber

 

LONG NIGHT OF SHORT FILMS I
6 short films, 96 min

Fri 07.11. I 18:30 I WELTSPIEGEL GROSSER SAAL I original version with English and German subtitles

Sun 09.11. I 12:00 I WELTSPIEGEL SAAL 2 I original version with English and German subtitles

Drehbuch
Daria Sliusarenko
Kamera
Egor Seleznev
Ton
Atylaahap Taman Dyuraay Uola
Schnitt
Daria Sliusarenko
Ausstattung
Anastasia Varkentin
Musik
COS
Darsteller
Dmitriy Kurochkin, Alexey Rakultsev, Ignat Gaisin
Produzent
Daria Sliusarenko
Daria Sliusarenko

Daria Sliusarenko - Graduated from the Screenwriting Program at the Moscow School of New Cinema and worked for several years as a screenwriter for Russian TV series and films, as well as a playwright for Theatre.doc. Later, enrolled in the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre and directed a feature-length documentary about a traveling circus, Joy. Following that, spent several years filming a documentary series about circuses around the world, from Brazil to Uzbekistan, titled Silk Road. After the war began in 2022, left Russia and directed the first short fiction film abroad.

Movies
2019 – SCENES (documentary short) – Screenwriter, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2020 – JOY (documentary feature) – Screenwriter, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2023 – THE SILK ROAD (documentary series) – Screenwriter, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
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