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CLOSENESS

TESNOTA

By Kantemir BALAGOV

Drama - Completed 2017

Cannes 2017

FIPRESCI

Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2017

Best Debut

HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017

Special Mention

Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2017

Best Debut, Best Actress(Olga Dragunova)

Montréal Festival of New Cinema 2017

Best Actress (Darya Zhovner)

Forum Kina Europejskiego ORLEN Cinergia 2017

Grand Prix

Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers 2018

Grand Jury Prize, Best Actress (Darya Zhovner)

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Kantemir BALAGOV
- Cast
- Darya ZHOVNER, Atrem CIPIN, Olga DRAGUNOVA, Veniamin KAC
- Synopsis
- Closeness, Kantemir Balagov's acclaimed Cannes debut, is a stifling film. And no wonder, as we find ourselves, after all, in the boiling cauldron of the North Caucasus at the end of the 1970s, where survival requires loyalty to one's "tribe,"-their family and ethnic community. Balagov looks at his hometown of Nalchik through the eyes of a young Jewish woman who is entangled in a network of hateful tribal dependencies that she is supposed to sacrifice herself to in order to save her brother. Ilana (played by Darya Zhovnar, whose incredible energy positively bursts out of the framed) does her best to escape these limitations. In her effort to find freedom, she boxes with reality, while Balagov encloses her in her surrounding world like in a ring. The electrifying, somewhat brutal, and at times controversial debut by the 26-year-old director promises great things from this unique new film talent.