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Unreal Estate

Director: Ksenia Galiaeva
With the heavenly surroundings of their Russian summer house as the setting, the filmmaker turns her parents into actors in their personal stories, in hopes of creating a healing family myth.

In this experimental documentary, the filmmaker wants to overlie the pain felt by her parents– survivors of the Holocaust and labour camps – with happy memories and testimonies to their closeness. For more than 25 years, she has been trying to influence their memory and the family history with the power of images and wishful thinking, and thus heal the past. In this debut film, she turns her parents into actors in their personal story. The Russian summer house as a collection of metaphors, where time is not linear but mythical: the story continues while repeating itself.

Moderator:Lidija Zelovic
Expert: Prof. doc. Arnoud Arntz - Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. He is an expert in the field of Imaginary Rescripting.

Credits

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Director
Ksenia Galiaeva
Producer
Ksenia Galiaeva
Manon Bovenkerk
Camera
Ksenia Galiaeva
Jonathan van Essche
Montage
Katarina Türler, NCE
Sound Design
Sergio González Cuervo
Executive producer
Ksenia Galiaeva
Manon Bovenkerk
Script
Ksenia Galiaeva
Set geluid
Ksenia Galiaeva
Regina Galiaeva
Sound editing
Sergio González Cuervo
Visual Effects
Jan Dallae
Park Woohyuk
Actor
Regina Galiaeva
Ksenia Galiaeva
Titus
Vladimir Galiaev
Still photography
Ksenia Galiaeva

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Title: Unreal Estate
Year: 2024
Duration : 57 minutes
Type: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 2024

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