Filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius presents his documentary „Barzakh“
On Wednesday, 24 February 2016, 6.30 p.m. Picturehouse Central in Piccadilly will screen Barzakh (2011) and host a post-screening discussion with its director Mantas Kvedaravičius. This event is part of the New European Documentary series, curated by European Union National Cultural Institutes (EUNIC) and Open City Docs festival.
Barzakh transports its viewers into Chechnya, a land torn apart by war and grief. After the recent disappearance of a person, his relatives and loved ones are drawn into a separate, terrifying world filled with meetings with seers and lawyers, the torturers and the tortured, secret prisons and mythical lakes. When the people that have disappeared visit one in dreams, it is said that they come from barzakh, a liminal space between the worlds of the living and the dead. The film received praise both in Lithuania and abroad, and was screened at the Berlin Film Festival where it received the Amnesty International and Ecumenical jury prize.
Mantas Kvedaravičius is an academic who teaches visual culture and critical theory at Vilnius University, he holds a masters from Oxford and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. His newest documentary, Mariupolis, which examines the stress of living in a frontline town during the civil war in Ukraine, as presented in Berlinale 2016.
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