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International Competition Short Film 2022
Filmstill Swallowtails
Swallowtails
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin
Spring 2022, Russia: How is protest against the Ukraine war possible? Can a film be an act of resistance despite censorship? Yes, in a detailed contemplation of the Kremlin wall, for example.
Filmstill Swallowtails

Swallowtails

Lastochkiny khvosty
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Russia
2022
17 minutes
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

In the spring of 2022, security guards in Moscow are tense. Under the guise of a film competition on the architecture of the city, Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin are permitted, if nothing else, to film the battlements of the Kremlin wall. But how to speak of the attack when you have to say “special military operation”? How to create pictures of resistance when filming any protest is forbidden? By pondering swallows and mathematical catastrophe theory, for example.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin
Cinematographer
Anton Khamchishkin
Editor
Anton Khamchishkin, Yana Osman
Producer
Yana Osman
Sound
Anton Khamchishkin
Score
Uri Lankin