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MAIDAN (Ukraina/The Netherlands, 2014)
by Sergei Loznitsa
MOTIVATION: Timely in this current passage of History, the filmmaker calmly and masterfully engages in the unfolding of a people’s unrest with a conflicted system.
MAIDAN
A film by Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraina/Netherlands 2014, 130')
A square – Maidan, in the center of Kiev –, a regime – the one of pro-Russian President Yanukovich – and a fuse – the decisions of the Ukrainian government to reject, at the end of 2013, the agreements with the EU and to sign at the same time a new formal agreement with Russia: this is how one of the largest popular revolutions of the early 21st century broke out. Sergei Loznitsa not only chronicles the evolution of a revolt into a revolution, but he also includes it in the wider history of modern Western democracy.
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TOTO SI SURORILE LUI /TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
di Alexander Nanau (Romania, 2014)
TOTO SI SURORILE LUI /TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
A film by Alexander Nanau (Romania, 2014)
Can you escape your destiny? Toto learns to dance hip hop and to read and write while his mother is in jail. Ana and Andrea, his elder sisters, are looking for some substance different from the one everybody is injecting in their veins in this, their milieu. A different world is possible if you are born on the side of those who can afford choices. Toto and his sisters remind us that another world is at times necessary. Even trying is beautiful.
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