Berlin International Film Festival 2024, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024
Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023. Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off and repurposed anew. From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction – and offer hope for survival and a way forward.
Victor graduated with a degree in screenwriting and directing from the Moscow Film School. Since then, his films have received numerous prizes at major international film festivals. His previous film, Gunda, premiered in the Encounters section at the 2020 Berlinale.
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