MARKET SCREENING Eastern Front

On February 24, 2022, Yevhen went to the front. He began to record everything that surrounded him. His own feelings, tens of thousands of refugees and his friends, with whom he went to war. Yevhen is a member of the volunteer medical battalion “Hospitallers”. The task of the battalion is to provide first aid on the front line and to evacuate the wounded to headquarters or frontline hospitals. This mobile unit is the main characters of the film. Six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love and, most importantly, faith in victory.

When they went to war, our heroes sent their families to the rear of the war front - to a village in the west of Ukraine. It was in this village that all the young men came to visit their relatives before the large-scale counterattack of the Ukrainian army in the southern direction. Not everyone is destined to return alive and in good health. They come to the rear to say goodbye to their loved ones and to baptize the nine-month-old son of Subota. And right from the festive table, they have to go back to war...

DIRECTOR VITALY MANSKY was born in 1963 in Lviv /Ukraine. He graduated from VGIK – All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1989 and became one of the most prominent contemporary Russian documentary filmmakers and producers. He has shot more than 30 films as a director which were screened at festivals worldwide and were awarded several times. As a producer, Mansky produced films with directors like Renata Litvinova, Alexander Rastorguyev, Sergey Miroshnichenko, Dmitry Zhelkovsky, and Sergei Loznitsa. Since 2014, he lives in Latvia. And is a Founder of IDFF Artdocfest/Riga.

Director Yevhen Titarenko

is an Ukrainian filmmaker. He graduated from the Mykolaychuk Institute of Visual Arts in 2009, specialty film and TV director. In 2012–2014 he was an owner of a film production company and a film school in Crimea. After the beginning of the temporary occupation of Crimea by Russia on 2014, he left his business and left Crimea, going to the front as a documentary filmmaker. After being evacuated from the Donetsk airport, he signed up as a volunteer for the Hospitaliers medical battalion. Since February 24, 2022, he is a volunteer of the medical battalion Hospitaliers.

Film Info

Original title: Shidniy front

Genre: documentary

Theme: war in Ukraine

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

Directors: Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko

Screenwriter: Vitaly Mansky

Cinematographers: Ivan Fomichenko, Yevhen Titarenko

Editor: Andrey Paperny

Sound: Václav Flegl

Producers: Natalia Manskaia, Nataliia Khazan

Co-producers: Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák, Kenan Aliyev

Produced by: Vertov in association with Braha Production Company, in co-production with Hypermarket Film and Current Time TV

To be released: 2023

Festivals: Berlinale 2023

98 min  DCP  16:9  5.1  4K  25 fps

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Soviet Milk

Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease mother’s depression and learn to live in the depressive Soviet regime herself. The lifelines of mother and daughter flow in the occupied Soviet Latvia from 1945 to 1989 when the Soviet Union collapses.

“I didn’t want to live and I didn’t want her to drink milk from a mother who doesn’t want to live.”

The story based on the bestseller Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena, translated to more than 20 languages.

DIRECTOR INARA KOLMANE is one of the most recognized film directors in Latvia with a background of directing more than 15 films. In 1994 she accomplished her studies at St.

Petersburg Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in the Faculty of Directing. She is member of European Film Academy. Some of her latest projects are feature films Bille (2018) and Mona (2012), and documentary films Double Life. Sex in the USSR (2017), Ruch and Norie (2015), My Husband Andrei Sakharov (2006). Soviet Milk is her third feature fiction.

Film Info

Original title: Mātes piens

Genre: female led drama

Languages: Latvian, Russian

Director: Ināra Kolmane

Screenwriter: Arvis Kolmanis

Cinematographer: Rolandas Leonavičius

Production Designer: Algirdas Garbačiauskas

Editor: Michal Lansky

Composer: Raimonds Tiguls

Sound: Artūras Pugačiauskas

Main cast: Maija Doveika, Rūta Kronberga, Elīna Vaska – Botere

Producers: Jānis Juhņēvičs, Marta Romanova - Jēkabsone

Co-producers: Inga Alika-Stroda, Ilze Korjusa, Ņikita Kalašnikovs, Cloé Garbay, Bastien Sirodot

Co-production companies: Tet (LV), Umedia (BE), NK Aģentūra (LV)

Produced by: Film Studio Devini

To be released: February 2023

110 min  DCP  2.39:1  5.1

Contact

Film Studio DEVIŅI

Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone

+371 2647 5178 devini@devini.lv , marta.rova@gmail.com www.devini.lv, Facebook.com/SovietMilk

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Michael Werner

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