Content Details
Turn Your Body To The Sun
Duration: 93’
Language: Russian, Dutch
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2021
Format: 2K 4K HD
Director: Aliona Van der Horst
Origin: Netherlands
SYNOPSIS
The incredible life story of a Soviet soldier who was captured by the Nazis during WWII. His daughter Sana searches the past to understand her silent father. As she accompanies Sana in her journey, the filmmaker excavates film archives, to find traces of those millions of Soviet soldiers, who fell victim of two dictators: Hitler and Stalin. Through the technique of ‘re- appropriating the archive’, the filmmaker searches for the soul of the image, for those subtle remnants of those millions who were omitted from the narrative of the war. Softly, but determinately the film starts breaking sixty years of silence.
AWARDS
World Premiere: IDFA 2021 – International Competition, Mumbai International Film Festival 2022 – Golden Conch Award, DocAviv 2022, True/False Festival 2022, Biografilm Festival 2022, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2022, Parnu Film Festival 2022, fARAD Film Festival 2022, Docu Tex 2022, Documentarist Istanbul 2022, Inconvenient Films 2022, Palić Film Festival 2022, Ambulante 2022, Hot Springs International Film Festival 2022, Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2022, Message to Man International Film Festival 2022, Muestra de Cine Internacional Memoria Verdad Justicia 2023, Crossing Europe 2024