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Le cygne de cristal

By

Darya Zhuk

Duration

95 MIN

Language

Russian

Subtitles

French

Country

United States, Germany, Belarus, Russia

Year

2018

War, war, that’s no reason to miss an ABSURD DRAMA about RESILIENCE
Diffusion completed

Synopsis

In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Alina Nasibullina will be at the 17th September's screening.

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Direction

Darya Zhuk

Belarus-born award-winning film director Darya Zhuk has been obsessing about filmmaking long enough to see her short films selected to SXSW, Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Atlanta, Palm Springs, Koroche, Santa Fe Independent film festivals just to name a few. She is a graduate of Columbia University MFA program in Directing. Darya lives and creates between Minsk and Brooklyn. Crystal Swan is her feature debut.

Screenplay

Darya Zhuk
Helga Landauer

Original Title

Khrustal

French Title

Le cygne de cristal

English Title

Crystal Swan

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