Anna Eborn : 2019
Atmospherically shot in hand-held 16mm, an intimate and vital account of love and friendship in a complex, contradictory world. A film about the everyday life of six teenagers in Transnistria. A year in the life of Tanya, Tolya, Alex, Sasha, Dima and Denis. They hang out together, flirt and fall in love and change locations according to the season: from a picturesque lake to snow-covered roads and deserted apartment blocks. Their home country of Transnistria is a tiny bubble where the Soviet Union has been preserved, isolated from the rest of the world and recognised by almost no other countries. A strange state structure which hangs over the teens like an iron cloud. But armed with mobile phones and internet access, they dream of a life beyond this conservative nationalist reality – and if the opportunity is there, who will dare take it? Anna Eborn's documentary feature was winner of the VPRO Big Screen Award when it premiered in the Voices section at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019, and screened in competition at Filmfest Hamburg 2019.
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