Vostok N°20
2018
Vostok N°20
Vostok N°20
2018
Menzione speciale
For originality not necessarily in the choice of the subject matter, but in the intimate way the film deals with it. For the director’s ability to empathize with the characters and to transform story, storytelling, and telling oneself in the pivotal theme of the film. A film made of small microcosmos, small details, small surprises.
Synopsis
The daily life in a third-class sleeping car in the trans Siberian train called Vostok n°20. In the small uncomfortable wagon, people share meals and conversations with strangers to kill time. A long trip and a portrait of nowadays Russia, its four seasons and 7 time zones passing before our eyes.
Biography and filmography
Elisabeth Silveiro is a French filmmaker with Russian-Cuban origins. She studied Editing at IAD Belgium Cinema School and received her diploma in 2011. In 2018 she co-directed the short film The Lost Ones, produced by the G.R.E.C. She likes to explore the themes of origins, time and self-seeking. Vostok n°20 is her first film.