House with a turret

35 mm - 2012 - Ukraine - 79 min - Black & White - Drama

House with a turret

Original title: Dom's bashenkoy

A film by Eva Neymann

A 8-year-old boy is travelling with his mother towards his grandfather, but their journey is stopped when the young woman dies of typhus in an unknown town, just as poor and in ruins as any other on the way. However, the boy is determined to go on. Eva Neymann’s film is a visual journey into a country covered in snow and left poor by war. This is a place of beautiful, deserted landscapes and people overcome by both need and greed.
The tranquil black-and-white images created by Lithuanian cameraman Rimmvydas Leipus masterfully evoke the atmosphere of the Second World War’s penultimate year in the Soviet Union. The picture was based on motifs drawn from the autobiographical story of the same name by writer and screenwriter Friedrich Gorenstein, who also penned the script for Tarkovsky’s Solaris.

Original language: Russian
Produced by: 1+1 PRODUCTION

Festivals:
Film by the Sea 2012 - Internationlal Competition
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia 2013 - Internationlal Competition
Kaunas Film Festival 2013
BFI London Film Festival 2013
Cottbus Film Festival 2013 - Spectrum Section
Plan Séquence Arras film festival, France 2013
Tallinn Black nights 2013 - International competition EurAsia
Festival International du film de Pau, France 2013 - Internationlal Competition
Fajr International Film Festival, Serbia 2013
Festival Int. Filmwochenende Würzburg 2013
Festival International du film de femmes de Créteil - France 2013 - Competition
Istanbul Film Festival 2013 - Competition
Titanic Film Festival 2013, Hungary - Competition
Skopje film festival 2013, Macedonia
Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Turkey 2013
Seattle International Film Festival 2013
Al este de Lima, Film Festival, Peru 2013
Los Angeles Film Festival 2013
Haifa International Film Festival 2013
Cambridge Film Festival 2013
Festival de cinéma de la ville de Quebec 2013
MANAKI BROS" FILM FESTIVAL , Macedonia, 2013 - Competition
Milwaukee Film Festival 2013, USA
International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, Iran 2013
Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2013
Denver Film Festival 2013
Cape Town Festival, 2013, South Africa
Rivers Film Festival, USA 2013
Gijon International Film Festival 2013, Spain
Kerala Film festival, India 2013
Chennai International Film Festival 2013
Pune International Film Festival 2013
New Taipei City Film Festival 2014

Awards:
Winner of The East of the West Award, Karlovy Vary Intn’l Film Festival 2012 / Jury prize, Batumi Film Festival, Georgia 2012 / Grand Prize, Tallinn Black Nights, Estonia 2012

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