19.10.2024 at 18:00. NC-1: Text for a Film Review, Hydroelectric Joy, Aurora

Time and place

Saturday, 19 October 2024 at 18:00

Aurora Cinema Centre – Small Hall: Nevsky prospect, 60

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Description

TEXT FOR A FILM REVIEW
2024, Russia, 9 min., col.
Director Dasha Likhaia

ГИДРОЭЛЕКТРОСЧАСТЬЕ
2024, France, 61 min., col.
Director and screenwriter Alexander Markov

"Un bonheur hydroélectrique / Hydroelectric Joy"

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Alexander Markov

Screenwriter: Alexander Markov

Producer: Rebecca Houzel

Producer company : Petit à petit production

Year: 2024

Country: France

Duration: 1 h. 1 min.

Languages: Russian, Arabic

Description

Leningrad, the 1960s. During a winter sojourn at a holiday camp, hydraulic engineer Vadim falls in love with a biologist named Vera. Their budding romance is interrupted by an imminent work trip to Egypt – Vadim is to take part in the construction of the Aswan hydropower plant on the Nile. He promises to return from the construction site as a hero. The Nile – now that’s a challenge! But not for Vadim. The Volga and the Don, the Yenisei and the Dnieper, the Angara and the Lena – not a single river has yet withstood his onslaught. And nor will Vera.

"Text for a Film Review"

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Dasha Likhaia

Operator: Dasha Likhaia

Year: 2024

Country: Russia

Duration: 9 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

A telephone conversation between the auteur and the man she once loved. She reads him the text of an application to enter a film finacing, and he gives her everyday advice.

About the director:

Dasha Likhaia
Director. Born in 1994 in the town of Priozersk in the Leningrad Region, Dasha Likhaya studied at technical college then worked as chief engineer at a chemical plant. In 2022 she graduated from the Documentary Film Laboratory at the Moscow School of New Cinema. Almost all of Likhaya’s films – 27 А (2021), Your Room, Volchok (2022), Super Dorothy: A Bengal Rose Variety (2023) – have been screened in the competition programmes at Message to Man, as well at the Visions du Reel and MIEFF festivals and the New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, among others.