RusDocFilmFest-3W: “MONKEY, OSTRICH, AND GRAVE” & “RADIO К”

He lives in Luhansk, which since April 2014, has been under the control of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Luhansk. His city is in the center of military action; the war determines its denizens’ lifestyles, behavior, and sense of morality. The young man’s unstable psyche refuses to accept the violence of the war, and our hero gets lost in a world of fantasy. His unusual story is a lesson in how inhuman any war is, and submerges us in the pacifist philosophy.
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Radio “К”
Director: Julia Gerra
Producer: Olga Shaposhnikova
Studio: Risk-Film
Russia, 2017, 45 min
For one hour each week, for three years, a small room in the Kaschenko Psychiatric Clinic in Moscow turns into a radio studio. The hosts and authors of the programs broadcast from there are former patients of the hospital. Society has labeled them insane, and has turned them into outcasts. Their solution was to band together to help others who had been rejected in the same way. In baring their souls together, they fight for their right to speak about what cannot be silenced. For one hour a week. Awaiting the next hour.
Language: Russian, English Subtitles. American premiere.
Screenings at the Main Theater