Toma SELIVANOVA
Тома СЕЛИВАНОВА
Toma SELIVANOVA
Russia, 2023, 90mn 
fiction
Dolomite and Ash
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Пепел и доломит

 

 Dolomite et Cendres

 Pepel i dolomit

 
Directed by : Toma SELIVANOVA (Тома СЕЛИВАНОВА)
Writing credits : Toma SELIVANOVA (Тома СЕЛИВАНОВА)
 
Cast
Antoine RIVAL (Антуан РИВАЛЬ) ...Yokhan
Toma SELIVANOVA (Тома СЕЛИВАНОВА) ...Dina
Konstantin MURZENKO (Константин МУРЗЕНКО)
Andrei_2 ZAYTSEV (Андрей_2 ЗАЙЦЕВ)
 
Produced by : Sergey KORNIKHIN (Сергей КОРНИХИН)
Production : Друг Друга / Droug Drouga
 

Plot synopsis
In Dolomite and Ashe", the young Russian filmmaker Dina makes a film about Stalinist oppression and the intergenerational trauma that still affects Russia. With her friend Johan, a German sound designer whose father disappeared in the Soviet Union during the World War II, she goes in search of the labor camps of the era. The areas around the Gulag camps are virtually deserted, but still bear the scars of the people who died here. the two of them, their relationship is also put to the test.
 

Commentaries
Побег от реальности. Антон Долин о новом российском кино [Échapper à la réalité. Anton Doline sur le nouveau cinéma russe], Anton DOLIN, YouTube, 2025
Toma Selivanova: Dolomite and Ash (Pepel i dolomit, Russia, 2023), Otto BOELE, Kinokultura, 2025
Пепел и доломит — драма о путешествии по сталинским лагерям [Critique du film Dolomite et cendres, 2023, de Toma Selivanova], Anton DOLIN, meduza.io, 2024
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2025
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2024
- International Independent Film Festival IndieLisboa, Lisbon (Portugal), 2024
- Festival of Contemporary Russian Cinema "Mayak", Gelendzhik (Russia), 2024
- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

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