This year's showcase features "The Red Soul," a film by Jessica Gorter about Stalinist attitudes in Russia today. After the documentary screening, there will be a Q&A session between the director and the audience.
Synopsis: How can it be that in the year 2017 Joseph Stalin is still revered as a hero while at the same time he is known as a tyrant who caused the deaths of millions of innocent citizens? The Red Soul shows a world full of contradictions. In a mosaic of frank and intimate portraits of ordinary Russians both young and old, pride alternates with pain and shame. Nostalgic stories about how the country flourished under the communist ideal contrast sharply with painful memories of hunger, violence and betrayal and a deep-seated fear on the part of citizens to show their Motherland in an unfavorable light.
Jessica Gorter trained as a documentary director and editor at the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. Her films about Russia include "Piter" (2004) and "900 Days" (2011) which won various awards, including Best Dutch Documentary at IDFA, the Prix Interreligieux at the Vision du Réel Film Festival in Nyon and the Special Jury Award at the Moscow Artdocfest Festival. Her films are frequently shown at festivals and on television in many countries and have been on release in cinemas.
Presented by the McDowell Center at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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- FREE!
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