Bridges of Time

Bridges of Time

MS12

Genre

Documentary

Director

Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

Run time

1h 18min

Cast

Mark Soosaar, Andres Sööt, Herz Frank, Uldis Brauns, Ivars Seleckis, Robertas Verba

In the beginning of the 60s, behind the Iron Wall, a new generation of filmmakers in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia challenged the Soviet dogma of propaganda newsreels and turned documentary filmmaking into a form of Art. They explored metaphor, promoted associative thinking, balanced facts and images in an earlier unseen and groundbreaking visual language - all that was and is called Poetic cinema. Half a century later we try to build bridges of time and detect how the old masters were thinking and how they managed - in the midst of that vast Soviet Solaris Ocean - to put a Human in the focus and search for the answers to the Eternal questions - the ones that every generation has to answer anew... The film has been screened at more than 30 festivals all over the world and won Best Documentary at the A-list Shanghai Film Festival. A must see for all documentary buffs!

Genre

Documentary

Director

Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

Run time

1h 18min

Cast

Mark Soosaar, Andres Sööt, Herz Frank, Uldis Brauns, Ivars Seleckis, Robertas Verba

In the beginning of the 60s, behind the Iron Wall, a new generation of filmmakers in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia challenged the Soviet dogma of propaganda newsreels and turned documentary filmmaking into a form of Art. They explored metaphor, promoted associative thinking, balanced facts and images in an earlier unseen and groundbreaking visual language - all that was and is called Poetic cinema. Half a century later we try to build bridges of time and detect how the old masters were thinking and how they managed - in the midst of that vast Soviet Solaris Ocean - to put a Human in the focus and search for the answers to the Eternal questions - the ones that every generation has to answer anew... The film has been screened at more than 30 festivals all over the world and won Best Documentary at the A-list Shanghai Film Festival. A must see for all documentary buffs!

Info

Rating

Under 12 Not Recommended

Production year

2018

Global distributor

VFS Films

Local distributor

Eesti Filmi Instituut

In cinema

8/21/2019