Tuesday Feb 16, 8 PM [Re-Run: Sunday Feb 21, 10 AM]

BLUE DRESS [Tickets] [Invite Friends]

D: Igor Minaev, C: Kevin Boise, Gabrielle Lazure, Youlia Zimina, DOP: Senda Bonnet, FR/UA 2016, 85 min., Russian OwEs – WP

Surreal worlds, elegiac images and romantic letters form a stream of suppressed memories. A young man discovers diaries and film reels of his recently deceased mother. Ukrainian director Igor Minaev melts his rarely seen shorts from Soviet times into an emotional journey into the past.

followed by:

VAPOUR

D: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, C: Krissakorn Thinthupthai, Thanyarak Chakkrawan, Kasame Tidnaur, DOP: Chatchai Suban, TH/KR/CN 2015, 20 min., silent – GP

The present as scenery of the past: truth, subtle and elusive like fog, embodies a timeless elegance. Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates a quiet tension, shifting between playful and threatening nuances. A veil enfolds history in constant movement as visual choreography.

after the screenings:

Debate: SILENCING

While we blindfold our present, how can we see a future? A search for arrangements of the past that aim to liberate the moment.

Guests: Igor Minaev (Direcotr), Ilona Jurkonyte (Film programme curator, film critic, co-founder of Kaunas International Film Festival, Vanier Scholar at Concordia University), Gertrud Koch (
Professor of Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin), Karel Och (Artistic Director of Karlovy Vary Film Festival).

Moderation: Alik Shpilyuk (Film critic, European Film Academy)