Balazher - The Corrections Of Reality
by Lesia Kordonets SWITZERLAND / 2013 / 29´
PRESS
"An old public bus and its passengers are both the story and reveal the history of a remote border region in Europe. By adding graphic elements, it elicits the hopes and dreams of a socialist state's utopia that was never to be and that state's decline into dystopia. It is beautifully shot and the bus comes alive as a character. We are still wondering how the bus is doing. We want it to go on and on." - jury
CREW
Cinematographer/ Editor Lesia Kordonets Music Oleh Kadanov Original Sound Tirza Bosshardt Sounddesign & Re-Recording Mixer Maurizius Staerkle Drux Animation Valentin Wyss, Valentin Kemmner, Sergio Costantini Producer Filippo Bonacci, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK
SYNOPSIS
Social systems come and go, but people remain. Since Soviet times an old ukrainian bus has been running along the outermost EU border. At the junction of this geo-political construct this old bus appears as fragile as the past itself. Will the bus come? Or not? Passengers wait patiently at the bus stop: and they dream that the bus will take them - perhaps to a better future.
AWARDS
*BEST DOCUMENTARY, INT. FILMFESTIVAL MUNICH
*FIPRESCI AWARD, ODESSA FILMFESTIVAL
*AUDIENCE AWARD, FILMFESTIVAL EBERSWALDE
*MENTION SPÉCIAL DU JURY, TOUS ECRANS GENEVE
*WINNER, PRIX RTS TOUS ECRANS GENEVE
