THE SWAN SONG OF FEDOR OZEROV (OmdtU) & No City, No Village | 16 March

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Cinema Ost – Osteuropa im Spiegel des Films | With supporting film Keine Stadt, Kein Land & Q&A with director of photography Daphne Klein

While the world is talking about the threat of war, 25-year-old musician Fedor is driven by a single obsession. He wants to write songs and finally form a band. But without his missing lucky jumper, inspiration seems impossible. His obsessive search turns into a weird odyssey that leads him to a wide variety of people. They are all searching for meaning, like-minded people or just a little closeness in the face of the end of the world. With humour, poetry, Orpheus & Eurydice, orcs & elves, Yuri Semashko’s low-budget directorial debut portrays a creative generation that defies the gravity of the world in a friendly, innocent tone.

Supporting film: No city, no village

Zhenya gets together with her family to celebrate her grandfather’s birthday. Over the course of the day, a series of intense conversations ensue: small frictions, long overdue words. Between all these voices, Zhenya finds access to her own story – and perhaps also to her mother.