
Conscientious objectors in Russia and their trials: pacifists, gays and political activists caught in the mills of a merciless system with grotesque features.
Conscientious objectors in Russia and their trials: pacifists, gays and political activists caught in the mills of a merciless system with grotesque features.
Quantum physics mean everything to Konstantin, but, alas, his students are more interested in girls. The loving portrait of a man who doesn’t fit into this world.
Konstantin, an introverted young scientist, is tasked with familiarising the adolescents in a summer camp with physics. Denis Klebleev puts Konstantin at the centre of his observations and image compositions. There is almost no shot in this film that doesn’t live and breathe through the strong presence of this charismatic and weird oddball. The camera lingers on him, apparently uninterested in the environment in which the hero of the films seems to be drifting aimlessly back and forth. Konstantin’s thoughts perpetually revolve around quantum theory. He is obsessed with the idea of being able to explain the world by it somehow. All the more frustrating for him when he gradually finds out that the adolescents in the camp refuse to share his passion. Isolation drives him into a corner. The narrative space gets smaller, too, and Konstantin’s thoughtful and nervous face begins to dominate the screen. “Strange Particles” is a portrait that also stands for the suffering of everybody who believes: strongly, sometimes in something unexplainable that can’t be proved. An existential question. Zaza Rusadze
Honorary Mention in the Next Masters Competition 2015
Father and son live in a house on the edge of the forest. An unusually close look at their daily life which nonetheless – or perhaps because of this – does not yield a general view.
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