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Natasha

Documentary Films - Competition 2011 / Natascha / Germany 2010

An experimental documentary by Anja Strelets which introduces us to 8-year-old Natasha who is growing up in a rundown settlement in one of the most desolate corners of Russia. In its imaginative visual composition, the film superbly combines the girl’s narrative with black-and-white photographs and poetic, dream-like sequences.

Natasha Natasha

Synopsis

This experimental documentary introduces us to 8-year-old Natasha. With innocence and candour, she describes what her younger brother does to annoy her and how she likes dressing up in her prettiest dresses. And this despite the fact that she lives in a rundown settlement in one of the most desolate corners of Russia, and the only furniture in their house with its boarded-up windows are four iron beds, a chest of drawers and a pile of cardboard boxes. In its imaginative visual composition, the film superbly combines the girl’s narrative with black-and-white photographs and poetic, dream-like sequences.

About the film

9 min / Color, DIGIBETA
International premiere

Director Anja Strelets / Screenplay Anja Strelets / Dir. of Photography Anja Strelets / Editor Anja Strelets / Producer Anja Strelets / Contact Anja Strelets

About the director

Anja Strelets

Anja Strelets (b. 1972, Stendal, Germany) studied art in Dessau and experimental media at university in Berlin. Natasha won the Audience Award at Dresdner Schmalfilmtage and was also screened at the festivals in Cologne, Cottbus and Osnabrück. Selected filmography: We Go – Not This Way (1998), Biblotheka Lenina (2000), Not This Way (2001), In Love M. (2002), The Lila Compact (2004), Nick My Boy (2007).

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Anja Strelets
Eberswalder Str.29, 10437, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 176 240 067 55
E-mail: [email protected]

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