Poland, 2024, 8 min., Russian with English and Bulgarian subtitles, dir. Dasha Brian
The theme of the movie is the mental and psychological state of people who decide to leave their country. In this project, we focus on the problem that every refugee faces even before they find themselves in a foreign country. The moment of making such an important decision is very traumatic in itself, and when a person has no time to think and prepare, they inevitably face a number of psychological problems.
Screenwriter: Dasha Brian
Director’s Biography:
Dasha Brian (*1995, Minsk) is an audiovisual artist working on the borderline of the arts based in Warsaw. In her work she strives to go beyond the limitations of specific forms, rejecting the semantic limitations associated with the word “artist” or “director”. After the 2020 revolution in Belarus, Dasha was forced to leave the country because of threats of political persecution from the Lukashenko regime. Since then she has been working a lot with political art and is the co-creator, director and curator of the art project “Revolution”, which works with the themes of human rights, refugees, art in crisis situations, the revolution in Belarus and the war in Ukraine.