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Silver Eye Winners at Silverdocs

At the Edge of Russia | Michal Marczak | Poland | 2010
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Two of the Silver Eye winners from the 2010, Family Instinct (dir. Andris Gauja) and At the Edge of Russia (dir. Michal Marczak), were selected for the North American festival of documentary film, Silverdocs 2011, which is organized in cooperation with Discovery Channel and AFI. Both East Silver Caravan films were nominated for the Sterling World Feature Competition.

Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2011, USA
June 20 – 26, 2011

Family Instinct

Director: Gauja Andris
Producer: Melberga Madara
Production company: Fa Filma

Ģimenes lietas, Latvia, 2010, 58 min, HD, Drama doc, Portrait, Social Issues

"Family Instinct" is a film about incest - an illegal act, social taboo and a violation of religious norms. Zanda is a 28-year-old woman, worn out by hard work. Surrounded by poverty and despair, she is trying to survive with her two children in a god-forsaken Latvian village. Her hardships can be traced back to living in a relationship with her brother Valdis. When Valdis is put in jail, the local community forces her to make a difficult choice: to stay with him or with her children. Despite her ill fortune, she manages to express her love for the children, still hoping to save her family. The film offers a tragicomic but highly authentic insight into the bleak reality of Latvian countryside today.

East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010 / Silver Eye Winner 2010 / Docu Talents from the East 2010 /

 


At the Edge of Russia

Director: Marczak Michał
Production company: Ozumi Films, Aperto Films, TVN SA

Koniec Rosji, Poland, 2010, 72 min, Digi Beta, Society

Alexei is a nineteen year old recruit being flown in to perform his military service on the frontier of northern Russia. The base is one of few such remaining outposts on the Arctic Ocean. There are five other seasoned and long serving soldiers stationed here, each with their own personal story or secret that has caused them to retreat from the real world. Their training and breaking in of the new arrival is sometimes humorous, at times harsh. Gradually, they each reveal something of themselves in their daily interactions and private moments as they continue their absurd duty in this snow covered no man's land, hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement.

East Silver 2010 / Silver Eye Award 2010/ East Silver Caravan 2010 / Ex Oriente Film 2006 / East European Forum 2006 /

 

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