Artdokfest ended without scandals. At the closure, a film was shown about Natalia Sindeeva

I can’t believe it: Artdokfest ended without the next scandal arranged by Milonov, FSB, Serbia, Rospotrebnadzor and mummers , waving his underpants, on which the name of the festival was written with blood. The program of 150 films ended with an exclamation mark - ovation. First, they applauded the festival team under the control of Vitaly Mansky. Those who stood the days, and the nights held out.

"Leave the documentary!"

This is the most strange and difficult film festival.

When every day is bad news.

When the feeling that the festival is physically destroyed.

I can imagine what the girls from the festival team felt when the halls of the St. Petersburg House of Cinema were sealed at the time of the opening, and they, together with the producer Evgeny Gindilis, guarded the doors, giving the audience the opportunity to watch the film about the most free documentary Alexander Rastorguev.

When the “Land Cerens” closed itself - if something did not work out.

When representatives of the Chechen diaspora gently asked to make one of the films and bought all the tickets for his sessions with one card.

When several paintings at once had to be taken out of the cinema surrounded by obscurantism, online.

When Serba activists burst into the cinema halls to disrupt the shows, the provocateurs called the police, the notebooks, and previously marked with staged pogroms, insulted the organizers of the festival, attacked the mankish. Then the attackers calmly left to return.

Listen, this is just a film festival. Why all this unprecedented series of provocations, harmful legislative acts that interfere with the lives of art, and even open attacks?

Mansky, of course, a fighter, a wall. He behaved impeccably, remaining correct in the most critical situations. And they collected the program with Victoria Belopolskaya. What is the film shown under the curtain on the most difficult topic of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict around the Karabakh “under the same Sun” by Francois Jacob! An attempt to consider a blazing conflict on both sides. A movie about how, in the age of colonization of Mars of people living nearby, they reconfigured to war, reality was turned into a “stone dream”, and the center of the identity of the two peoples to a hot point. And only units, personalities of the scale of the famous Azerbaijani writer Akram Ailisli are able to resist the current system of war and pogroms alone.

Now the question. Will Vitaly Mansky find the strength and desire of a world -famous documentary to hold the best festival in the country that falls into the mind of the mind? After all, Artdokfest already exists in Riga, where his president is not threatened by camouflaged and real holy fools and deputies who write denunciations.

At the closure, there was a cut from the statements of ex-sedes of Artdokfest: Alexander Mitta, Tatyana Drubich, Harry Bardin, Alvis Hermanis, Svetlana Sorokina ... The meaning of the statements: “Stop to tear off the festival! Leave the documentary! Give us the opportunity to watch an honest movie! "

Freedom is also the right to tell people what they want and what they do not want to hear.

... The tickets were sold to the closing film in a few hours.

"F@ck this job"

“F@ck this Job” of Vera Krichevskaya - about Natalia Sindeeva, 13 years ago together with like -minded people who created an independent “television for normal”. Rock-n Rol in the era of military marches. Before our eyes, the sunny, mushroom “rain” - the “good mood” television channel - turned into honest television for people with an active civic position. The main slogan is "for those who do not give a damn."

Russian variant of Krichevskaya’s film: “On ... such a job!” - The phrase, which was shouted by journalist Timur Olevsky, who came under fire on Grushevsky during mass protests on the Maidan.

Vera Krichevskaya, a co -founder of “rain” - came up with her filmmaker in tango style 126 minutes long.

About what the film
About the transformation of lovely fifa into a pink car, an indefatigable dragonfly, dreaming of a prince dancing in the dark and in the world every free minute - in powerful power, in Stoic, in electricity at 360 watts.

About the latest history of Russia, about our paper hopes and idealism, which glowed in smiles in Bolotnaya, on pure ponds and Sakharov, on the faces of the leading "rain". About Russia, which is spinning a hackneyed plate under the dexterous hands of an unlimited DJ:

Under no circumstances to change the constitution!
It is necessary to amend the Constitution!

On the exclusion of new barrage rules. About television, the only posture among the construction of crowning channels, forgetting that the news is most directly related to reality. About the prohibitively high price of freedom, reports from auto -zaks and the ability to collect yourself from fragments.

It all started with a clean adventure. They composed and rebuilt television capable of changing the world. Alternative, perpendicular to the State Academy of Sciences, which during the explosions in Domodedovo show “Efrosinya” and “federal judge”. The first broadcasts on the knee. The unjustified, infantile belief in the demonstrative “freedom -beeer” Medvedev. Exile from Red October, homelessness and broadcasting from the apartment. Interview on the windowsill of Navalny. The first raids and threats. A scandal around a survey about the Leningrad blockade and a consistent disconnection of the broadcast by satellite and cable operators. The relentless pressure of the State Machine. Surveillance. Pogroms. Calls for interrogations in the UK. Arrests. Debts.

These are all the facts of the biography of Sindeeva. “Rain” for its creators is more than a profession: internal freedom, personal involvement, emotional experience. And it seems that the cancer, which will overtake Natalia Sindeev, will be another test of strength.

And yet ... they have to abandon the hope of a free future, for which they created the TV channel. Neither pink, nor streams of pure rain do not change the world.

“We won many battles,” the heroine of the film will say, “but we lost the main war.”

And also professional burnout ... When external taxes subside, adrenaline falls in the blood. Then the conflict invisible to the outside gaze begins to burn, to corrode from the inside. Like a strange, painful, long -playing conflict of Sindeeva vs Zygar.

And yet they built and built and built. Yourself first of all. They are the rain. Television for the minority. They themselves are from this minority. Therefore, “rain” is not just the main thing of life, but the very taste of life. Like tango with strokes, which was not given to Natasha Sindeeva, and yet she will switch him. And the prince, of course, is in this incredible fairy tale. Businessman Alexander Vinokurov, who had a tremendous test in his life - to understand, accept, love such an exceptional and wayward Sindeev.

Director Vera Krichevskaya said before the show that we were still watching the final version of the film. Perhaps he will still help, there is a feeling of the output of the temporite in the middle. In addition, the picture seems to be designed for a foreign audience, which was confirmed by producers with star titles. It seems to me that such a tape is very necessary here and now, when the “mood color is black”, but I don’t even want to think about “tomorrow”. And that means there is no other hope, as the solidarity of those in the minority. On the "optimistic channel", sailing 11 years in storm and total depression. By the way, one of the epigraphs to the picture of the faith of Krichevskaya was a line from the Orwell novel: "Perhaps the madman was just one of the minority."