Aleksandr MINDADZE Александр МИНДАДЗЕ Aleksandr MINDADZE   Russia, 2007, 85 mn  Colour, fiction

Soar ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Отрыв    Séparation  Otryv

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Plot synopsis

Having lost his wife in a plane crash, a man tries to find out the real reason for the disaster. Forced to sift through all the lies amassing around him, he temporarily forgets about his grief. He finds a f light crew who survived a crash and celebrates his rebirth with them. Suddenly, moments of grief turn into a never-before-experienced f lash of freedom for him. This illusion becomes a lulling trap in which he can relive the happiest moments of his life. This is an ordinary life where simple things become rare and unusual, and where grief turns to joy. According to the director the plot of the film came about when he was „watching people who lost their loved ones and out of loneliness they’ve suddenly acquired a new vision, a new freedom.“ (http://eng.riff.is/vitranir/fljugeu-haerra)

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Aleksandr Mindadze : Soar (Otryv, 2007), Barbara WURM, kinokultura.com, 2008

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik (Iceland ), 2009

- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2008

- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2008

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2008

- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Tessaloniki (Greece), 2007

- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2007

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007

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