collective project/ one of the director
A provincial portrait capturing Russia in all its laconic glory, surreality and brutality – the cinematic panorama of the tiny city of Kansk in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. This anthology film features contributions by a total of twenty filmmakers from all over the world, all shot during the International Film Festival in Kansk. On the bus, on the city’s stages, in the canteen, in a birch grove: poetry is omnipresent. The figures in the film re-construct their own deaths, floating in a space between reality and dream. Short stories of individual people flow by, reflecting the totality of the disintegration of our civilization from the perspective of a surreal present.