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IFF Message to Man > 2023 > International Competition: Documentary films > Holidays

Holidays

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Antoine Cattin

Screenwriter: Antoine Cattin

Producer: Elena Hill

Producer company : Les Films Hors-Champ, SRG SSR RTS Radio Télévision Suisse Мировые права Les Films Hors-Champ

Year: 2022

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 1 h. 27 min.

Description

Synopsis:

St Petersburg is the city of dreamers – Dzhus dreams of a better life, Nikita dreams of making it big, Dina dreams of taking power and Anna dreams of retiring. As we follow these characters over the course of one year and seven popular holidays, the authoritarian grip of the Kremlin is closing in on all of them, leaving very little room for dreams. “Holidays” is a tragicomedy about contemporary and eternal Russia.

About the director:
Antoine Cattin. Graduated with a degree in history, film and Russian from the University of Lausanne. He is the founder and publisher of the film magazine “Hors-Champ” and has lived for the last twenty years in Russia, where he worked as assistant director to Sergey Loznitsa. Cattin has directed several documentary films in collaboration with Pavel Kostomarov, including Life in Peace (2005) and The Mother (2007), which was nominated for the European Film Award, Playback (two prizes at 2012 Message to Man IFF).

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