Home where…

Home, sweet home.

“The House I Live In”, “The Way Home”, “Little Comedies of a Big House”, “Heartbreak House”, “Home Alone”… The house is the protagonist of hundreds of films. It can be a palace, a villa, a humble village cottage, a Soviet-era town building, a luxurious apartment on the 21st floor of a skyscraper, a poor shack or simply a place that means a lot to us. Our little homeland.

It is a point on the map where we always come back to. A place filled with warmth and light. A place filled with memories of our childhood and our ancestors. It is the center of gravity, our foothold in life.

It is where our family and our loved ones remember us; they care about us, wait for us, hope, feel jealous, and miss us. It is where the whole family gathers around the table. It is there that skeletons are often pulled from closets, hidden letters and photographs are taken out, and family secrets are revealed.

This is what our new program is about. It features films from all over the world - from China, Vietnam, Serbia, Russia, the Philippines. What they all have in common is a sense of home, family and motherland.

They sail there (“Water Can Go Anywhere” by China’s Fang Liang), they walk there (“Echoes of Saint George” by Jelena Baji? Jo?i?, Serbia), struggling with the wind and the rain (“Don’t Cry, Butterfly” by D??ng Di?u Linh, Vietnam). There the sun shines in a special way (“Where the Sun Shines Bright” by Lam Can-Zhao, China, Switzerland, Canada, Malaysia). Old wounds ache and heal there (“Raskaty” by Gleb Puskepalis).

Evgenia Tirdatova