KARELIA: INTERNATIONAL WITH MONUMENT

España, 2019
Director: Andrés Duque

Director and Producer: Andrés Duque
Cinematography, Editing and Sound: Andrés Duque

Trees are everything. In a settlement near the Russian-Finnish border, a traditional family keeps shamanistic rituals alive. The children play in the same forest where photos nailed to trees remind us of Stalin’s bloody repression. Spirituality and politics meet in this intuitive montage of poetic impressions, historical material, nature shots, family scenes and probing testimony, creating a memory of historical events by dint of imagination.