Event description
The three films reflect on the traces that colonialism leaves on cultural, architectural and ecological landscapes long after the destructive intervention. N-13
Where Russia Ends
Tam, de zakinchuyetʹsya Rosiya
Dir. Oleksiy Radynski / Ukraine / 2024 / English subtitles. / 0.25
In 1980, an expedition from Ukraine is sent to report on the far corners of Siberia. In February 2022, when Russia starts hostilities in Ukraine, forgotten footage is discovered in the Kyiv Film Studio for the Promotion of Science. It is a timely reminder of Russia's overwhelming possessive power, which is taking everything beautiful and alive with it like a hurricane. The imperialist expansion of the country, which attempts to cover itself with 'voluntary accession', has been going on all along, and the methods have not changed. The destruction of nature and the oppression and exploitation of indigenous communities (Evenk, Buryat, Yakut, etc.) are no different.
Project
Project
Dir. Dane Komljen / Serbia / 2023 / English subt. /0.23
In 1973, a Serbian company, which had won a tender, undertakes the construction of an international trade fair complex in Lagos, Nigeria. Opened in 1977, the complex does not survive the country's recession and officially closes its doors after ten years of operation. A grand and ambitious ambition becomes part of everyday life. The wildlife that has grown up is trying to reclaim its territory from the abandoned building, and the locals are taking over the space, setting up a carpentry workshop and a bicycle repair shop. And for the children, it's a giant playground.
Sludge
Silt
Dir. Ssi Saarinen, Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Iida Jonsson / Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden / 2023 / without dialogue / 0.35
In 2012, a field suddenly swelled up in the Remains. Looking like a lake at first glance, this body of water is the result of a blocked drainage ditch. Land reclamation in Lithuania was carried out rapidly during the Soviet era in order to adapt the conditions for agriculture. Most of the ditches were left unmaintained, the flow of water was disrupted and, decades after independence, is still changing the landscape. In Dumblas, a film by Ona Julia Luke Steponaityte, Iida Jonsson and Ssi Saarinen, the reservoir is explored through perspectives more suited to emergency situations: head camera, exploratory diving and helicopter flight. The soundtrack, composed by Alexander Iezzi, acts as another landscape that does not dwell on a particular rhythm or harmony.
Films with Lithuanian and English subtitles.
With Lithuanian and English subtitles.
Founded in 2004, the Vilnius Documentary Film Festival is the oldest international documentary film festival in the Baltic States and the only festival in Lithuania dedicated exclusively to creative documentaries. The main programme consists of films from recent years that have been screened at the most important documentary festivals. Parallel programmes are dedicated to retrospectives and special events. The VDFF is a space for meetings and conversations: filmmakers, curators, authors' representatives come to the festival, and a catalogue is published with texts accompanying the films.
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