Aleksandr_5 KUZNETSOV
Александр_5 КУЗНЕЦОВ
Aleksandr_5 KOUZNETSOV
Russia / France, 2016, 77mn 
documentary
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 We'll Be Alright

 Manuel de libération

 
Directed by : Aleksandr_5 KUZNETSOV (Александр_5 КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr_5 KUZNETSOV (Александр_5 КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Cinematography : Aleksandr_5 KUZNETSOV (Александр_5 КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Sound : Aleksandr KALASHNIKOV (Александр КАЛАШНИКОВ)
Editing : Alexander ABATUROV ( Александр АБАТУРОВ)
Produced by : Rebecca HOUZEL (Ребекка УЗЕЛЬ)
Companies : Petit à Petit Production
Release Date in Russia : 03/12/2016
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
VOD or DVD release in France : 2016-10-19, Site
Awards :
First prize, National Competition, Message to Man : International Short, Documentary and Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg (Russia), 2017
Jury Prize Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine, Nancy (France), 2016
Interreligious award Nyon International Documentary Film Festival "Visions du réel", Nyon (Switzerland), 2016
Jury Prize Nyon International Documentary Film Festival "Visions du réel", Nyon (Switzerland), 2016
European Film Academy. 15 Documentaries Selected for European Film Awards, 2016
John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media, Camden International Film Festival, (USA), 2016
International Jury Prize, International Human Rights Film Festival, Vienna (Austria), 2016
Special mention, Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, (Argentina), 2016
Jury Prize, International Art Documentary Film Festival «Artdocfest», Moscow (Russia), 2016
The Zwierciadło Award for the Best Film on Psychology, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw (Poland), 2017.
Award XI Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival “Zerkalo”, Russia, 2017
Award Images of Justice, Rennes (France), 2018.
Le prix Etoile de la Scam, Paris (France), 2020
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Nour Films. 2019. Titre : Manuel de libération.
Contenu additionnel : documentaire : Territoire de l'amour d'Alexander Kuznetsov (50')
Plot synopsis
A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no freedom, no work, and no family. The path to reconquer these rights, in the face of fearsome Russian institutional bureaucracy, is long and difficult. At times, someone succeeds, but the new freedom is then a leap into the unknown... The path of these young “fighters”, full of inner rage, courage and obstinacy, is striking. We are very impressed by the talent of Alexander Kuznetsov and his capacity to listen and observe. The film has a formidable narrative progression — simple and implacable. The camera is always at the right distance and, through its capture of space, gives us the real dimension of the drama that the protagonists are experiencing. It also remains very discreet with regard to their emotions, like in the final scenes, where everything is said in the luminosity of a glance or the empty space of a closed window. A striking “liberation user guide”.
Source: https://www.visionsdureel.ch/
 
commentaries
Entretien avec Rebecca Houzel de Petit à petit production [A propos de Alexander Kuznetsov et Alexander Abaturov], Rebecca HOUZEL, pro.bpi.fr, 2023
Красноярский режиссер Александр Кузнецов стал лауреатом Международного кинофестиваля «Послание к человеку» [A propos du film Manuel de libération, 2016, de Aleksandr Kouznetsov], cultura24.ru, 2017
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2017
- Russian Film Festival, Orléans (France), 2017
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Message to Man : International Short, Documentary and Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg (Russia), 2017
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2016
- Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine, Nancy (France), 2016
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2016
- Nyon International Documentary Film Festival "Visions du réel", Nyon (Switzerland), 2016
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