The premiere of the film "Kamchatka - a cure for hate"

On December 23, the DOKer project will close the 8th season of screenings for the premiere of Yulia Mironova’s film Kamchatka - A Cure for Hate. The film received an award in the nomination "Best Mid-Length Film" at the XXVII International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam - one of the largest film screenings in the field of non-fiction cinema in the world.

“Kamchatka is a cure for hatred” is a bewitching, very personal, but also large-scale story of the war correspondent and writer Vyacheslav Nemyshev.

The protagonist of the film is a typical representative of the generation of people affected by the Chechen war. Having been in the war 27 times, he was no longer able to adapt to normal life and "escaped" to Kamchatka. For two years, Vyacheslav shot this experiment on himself on a video camera in the hope of finding an answer to the question: how to get rid of the nightmare that the war gave?

The Russian premiere of the film took place at the XXV Open festival of documentary films "Russia" in Yekaterinburg, where the work was awarded a special prize for the project of the author’s documentary film "DOKer".

The international premiere of the film was held as part of the XXVII IFF Documentary Cinema in Amsterdam, where “Kamchatka is the cure for hate” not only turned out to be the only film representing Russia in the competition program of the festival, but also won the Main Prize in the category “Best Mid-Length Film”.

* The International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) has existed since 1988 and is one of the largest film screenings in the field of non-fiction cinema. This year about 300 films from around the world took part in the festival competition, more than 200 thousand spectators and about 2.5 thousand filmmakers from around the world attended the festival.

After the award ceremony, the jury admitted that they had a lot of controversy, but it was the painting "Kamchatka - a cure for hate" that led all their ideas to a common denominator. “We took the video camera for the character of the film and made an exciting journey into the consciousness of a person struggling to find peace and escape from the past. Short scenes of tenderness made us smile, and a long shot with fish caught in the net, preparing to die, focused our attention on the dark side of the past hero. It is not shown explicitly, but we felt pain in every frame, understanding the consequences of the war and its trauma, ”the jury said in a report.

After the show, a meeting and discussion with the author will take place.

“The hero of the picture is captured not in the social, but in the inner existential space. Outwardly, it even looks romantic, for Glory is saved from the ghosts of war on the Commander Islands, where a person is as close as possible to the natural element and almost becomes part of it. But it’s almost that. In the picture there remains that inconsistency, which may seem understated, but in fact distinguishes an artistic statement from a journalistic one ”

Andrey Plakhov for Kommersant