Section: Short Film Competition

FROM A GREAT HEIGHT

Vlada Senkova

Belarus, Russia, 2018, 16 Min

Mother and son say goodbye without a word on the platform. The loudspeaker announcement asks people to report any "suspicious persons". If a train journey is often about a departure or a new beginning, this film then shows that it can become an oppressive escape into an uncertain future.

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Outside, Egor's mother quickly makes the sign of the cross as if to protect her son's journey. On the train, the young man has to fight his way to his seat, avoids the eyes of the other passengers by hiding in the music coming from his heavy headphones and ignores them. Except for the man sitting opposite him, who does not speak Russian and is very similar to Egor in his behaviour. In her film, Vlada Senkova, the winner of the FilmFestival Cottbus Discovery Script Doctoring Award in 2016, picks up on the feeling of a young generation who, forced to flee permanently, no longer associates travelling with freedom. RB

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Vlada Senkova

Kamera
Anton Lumo

Ton
Max Gavrilenko

Schnitt
Vlada Senkova

Ausstattung
Vlada Senkova, Anton Lumo

Darsteller
Alexander Lesko, Dmitriy Oleinik, Svetlana Timokhina, Anna Makhlina

Produzent
Larisa Oleinik

Co-Produktion
DOKA

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Vlada Senkova - born in 1986 in Vitebsk, Belarus. She first graduated in Computer Linguistics from the State University of Belarus, then from the Minsk Film School in directing and screenwriting. Already in 2016, she was a guest at the FFC with her feature film debut THE COUNT IN ORANGES, for which she received the Cottbus Discovery Script Doctoring Award.

Movies
GRAF V APELSINAKH (2015, FFC 2016)

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