A sensitive and cinematographically well designed story about a little boy whose grandmother dies. The film shows how the grandpa left behind reacts and shows the emotions of grandpa and grandson. The boy, confronted with death for the first time in his life, doesn’t really understand, apart from the direct physical consequences: the cold and immovable body of his grandma. Together with his grandpa, he seeks distraction in nature, especially in hunting hares. The film has a philosophical undertone of life and death and ends with an unexpectedly emotional confrontation between the boy and his grandpa.
Also in this combined programme
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Kinder auf der Landstrasse
Inspired by a short story by Franz Kafka, transformed into a visual and sensual poem with powerful and painterly scenes of nature. -
The Day I Approach Myself
A writer arrives on the south coast of the Crimea to work on a translation of Rilke. In the course of the film, the travel… -
Farewell
This graduation film provides a personal and artistic way for the maker to come to terms with the death of her father who committed suicide…
Film details
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
