Galvanizing thoughts

„Seven years ago, I was here in Berlin performing at the Schaubühne and seven years later I’m standing introducing my first feature film,” thats how the young filmmaker and actor Alexander Gorchilin introduced his film Kislota (Acid) at the Berlinale 69 in section Panorama.

Switching Lightning, freighting scenes, a flooded apartment, a toilet in the middle of the room, Vanya naked jumps to his death off a balcony. ‘If you want to jump, jump,’ Pete had told him. Before.

The young director Gorchilin answered regarding the domination of the fatherless characters: “its a common phenomena in Russia that children are fatherless, and the father is either in prison, out of the country or died.”

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The eel journey

„So if you like films about a hero journey, this is not. This is a panorama of several characters’ lives and dreams“ started the director Syllas Tzoumerkas answering the Q&A after the screening of his fantastic art piece that made “The Miracle of the Saragossa sea”, in Panorama Section at the Berlinale 2019. Weiterlesen „The eel journey“