DOK.fest is in the Here&Now
Contemporary documentary films on politics and society – Stories of war
With the Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022, war as a violent intrusion into civilian life, as a brutal overwriting of everyday life and dreams of the future, has once again created bitter realities in the centre of Europe. The series shows four current documentary films that deal with different stories of war: With the perspective of courageous US women in the Second World War who made history as war reporters, with stirring scenes from theatres of war in the Ukraine war full of cruelty, but also of touching generosity and solidarity, and finally with the question of how the traumas suffered up to 1945 were passed on from generation to generation – so how much of the war is in us?
Note: The films contain explicit depictions of violence, death and war.
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EASTERN FRONT
Latvia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, USA 2023 – Director: Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen TITARENKO – Free admission – Length: 98 min.
Yevhen "Rezhnik" Titarenko, co-director of the film, has joined a volunteer ambulance crew that takes the seriously injured from the battlefront to the nearest hospital. The rescue missions are dramatic. They have to avoid roadblocks and mined areas while lives are fought for in the back of the van. By contrast there is the everyday life beyond the frontline: family get-togethers, a christening, a day at the lake. Silvia Bauer
Biography
Vitaly Mansky was born in the former Soviet Union in Lviv and studied film in Moscow. The multi-award-winning director and founder of ArtDocFest has been living in Latvian exile in Riga since 2014.
Filmography
PUTIN'S WITNESSES, LV/CH/CZ 2018, 107 min.
CLOSE RELATIONS, LV/DE/EE/UA 2016, 112 min.
UNDER THE SUN, RU/DE/CZ 2015, 106 min.
Note
This film contains explicit depictions of violence.
English/Original Title: SHIDNIY FRONT. Writer: Vitaly Mansky. Camera: Yevhen Titarenko, Ivan Fomichenko. Sound: Václav Flegl. Editing: Andrey Paperny. Production: Verto, BRAHA. Producer: Natalia Manskaia, Natalia Khazan. International Sales: Deckert Distribution.
