LIBERATION: THE USER’S GUIDE (16+)
Russia, France, 2016, colour, 80 min.
Director: Alexander Kuznetsov
Director: Alexander Kuznetsov
A film-observation of life in neuropsychiatric institutions of the Siberian province, where people are deprived of civil rights: they have no freedom, no work, no family. To win these rights from the formidable Russian institutional bureaucracy is a long and difficult path. Sometimes someone succeeds, and although achieving freedom is always a leap into the unknown, young “wrestlers” are full of inner fury, courage and perseverance.
AWARDS
IDFF “Visions du reel” (Switzerland, 2016) – Jury Prize, Interreligious award; IDFF «Artdocfest» (Russia, 2016) – Grand Prize; International Human Rights Film Festival (Austria, 2016) – International Jury Prize; Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine (France, 2016) – Grand Prize Jury; Camden IFF (USA, 2016) – John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media; IDFF “Message to Man” (Russia, 2017) – Grand Prize for the Best national Film; Award Images of Justice (France, 2018).
Alexander Kuznetsov
Alexander Kuznetsov
was born in 1957 in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. He graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute (Siberian Federal University) in 1979. USSR master of sports in mountaineering, champion of the country (1987, 1990). Member of the victorious Krasnoyarsk expedition to Everest on a new route (1996). Photojournalist.
FILMOGRAPHY
Territory of Love, 2010; Territory of Freedom, 2014; Liberation: the User’s Guide, 2016; Life on Siberian Land, 2017; La Visite (The Quay Branly Museum), 2017.
Russia, France, 2016, colour, 80 min.
Director: Alexander Kuznetsov
Director: Alexander Kuznetsov
A film-observation of life in neuropsychiatric institutions of the Siberian province, where people are deprived of civil rights: they have no freedom, no work, no family. To win these rights from the formidable Russian institutional bureaucracy is a long and difficult path. Sometimes someone succeeds, and although achieving freedom is always a leap into the unknown, young “wrestlers” are full of inner fury, courage and perseverance.
AWARDS
IDFF “Visions du reel” (Switzerland, 2016) – Jury Prize, Interreligious award; IDFF «Artdocfest» (Russia, 2016) – Grand Prize; International Human Rights Film Festival (Austria, 2016) – International Jury Prize; Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine (France, 2016) – Grand Prize Jury; Camden IFF (USA, 2016) – John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media; IDFF “Message to Man” (Russia, 2017) – Grand Prize for the Best national Film; Award Images of Justice (France, 2018).