Director Oleg Sentsov is a Hostage of Putin Regime
The World Cup in Russia has brought attention to injustices in the film world. Milos Stehlik discusses the case of a director imprisoned since 2014 under false pretenses in Russia. In a recent interview Facets founder and artistic director Milos Stehlik speaks with three preeminent figures of the film world from across Eastern Europe. On WEBZ’s Worldview hear from Askold Kurov a Russian documentary filmmaker who made a documentary about Sentsov’s sentencing, The Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov (2017), Agnieszka Holland, chair of the European Film Academy and filmmaker herself, and finally Andriy Khalpakhchi, the director of the Molodist Film Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. https://youtu.be/GFohGYNapj0 Oleg Sentsov is a
The Poignant Confrontation of Reunification
In a style reminiscent of Chris Marker, Reunification (2015) meditates on the nature of memory, family, and art. Alvin Tsang is motivated to contextualize his family’s experience empathetically, historically, and philosophically. The intimate family history we are given is marked by immigration, betrayal, and divorce. But Tsang never relies on the shock of the real that reality-injected TV has worked so hard to manufacture. Instead, the film tries hard to be less sensational. This is a personal story and a personal drama. To create the needed intimacy, the film relies on matter-of-fact conversations, family photos, and the documentation of personal spaces. It is from