18.10.2025 at 18:45. International Competition-2: Les Recommencements / New Beginnings | Insomnia, Dom Kino, Big Hall

Time and place

Saturday, 18 October 2025 at 18:45

Dom Kino Cinema Center – Big Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12

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Description

La Juventud es una Isla / Youth is an Island

2024, France, 30 min., col., language – Spanish, short-length, documentary
Director: Louise Ernandez

Merging Bodies

2024, Italy-Albania, 23 min., col., no dialogue, documentary, short-length
Director: Adrian Paci

Graziano – A Hermit’s Story

2024, Belgium-Germany, 41 min., col., language – Zoldo (Italian dialect), German, documentary, full-length
Director: Jozefien Van der Aelst

Merging Bodies

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Adrian Paci

Operator: Erfort Kuke

Screenwriter: Adrian Paci

Producer: Adrian Paci

Producer company : Laminazione Sottile, Kube Studios

Year: 2024

Country: Italy-Albania

Duration: 23 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

Russian premiere

An aluminium processing plant. The bodies of workers, their tools, and the space where they toil.

About the director:

Adrian Paci
Born in Shkodër, Albania in 1969, he is a contemporary artist based in Milan and Shkodër. Educated at the Akademia e Arteve in Tirana, he fled Albania in 1997 during political unrest. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning video, installation, painting, and photography—explores exile, identity, and displacement, often rooted in personal experience. Notable works include Apparizione (2001), Home to Go (2001), and The Column (2013). His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, and MAXXI.

La Juventud es una Isla / Youth is an Island

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Louise Ernandez

Operator: Arnaud Alberol

Screenwriter: Anna Belguermi, Louise Ernandez

Producer: Natalia Trebik

Producer company : Le Fresnoy

Year: 2024

Country: France

Duration: 30 min.

Languages: Spanish

Description

Russian premiere

Is man an island? The story of Cuban YouTuber Yasse, who streams to 150,000 subscribers, explores personal, social, and geopolitical isolation in a hyper-globalised world.

About the director:

Louise Ernandez
Director. Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (2016) and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (2024). A filmmaker and photographer, she develops hybrid work at the crossroads of documentary, fiction and sensory experimentation. She explores the impact of technology on human identity, the effects of globalisation and digital isolation, filming the contemporary tensions that run through gestures, territories and narratives.

Graziano – A Hermit’s Story

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Jozefien Van der Aelst

Operator: Edoardo Scussel

Producer: Jozefien Van der Aelst, Fred Kelemen

Producer company : KINO KOMBAT Filmproduction

Year: 2024

Country: Belgium-Germany

Duration: 41 min.

Languages: Zoldo (Italian dialect), German

Description

Russian premiere

Graziano is the sole resident of a deserted mountain village. With his blind dog as his loyal companion, Graziano roams the empty streets, serenades in the abandoned church, and embarks on a quest to reunite with his long-lost love, whose name has faded from his memory. A melancholic portrait of a hermit dwelling in the echoing well of his daydream.

About the director:

Jozefien Van der Aelst
Film director and writer based in Berlin and Antwerp. In her hybrid worlds, often on the brink of collapse, she explores the relationship between humans and nature, touching on themes such as emergence, spatial narrativity, cartography, traditions, landscape, grassroots religion, catastrophe, and ecology. She holds an MA in Philosophy and a BA in Theatre, Film & Literature Studies, and later studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin.