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SUMMARY:Screening of &quot\;Barzakh&quot\; - Rosa Barotsi (University of C
 ambridge)
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CONTACT:Daniel Jonah Wolpert
DESCRIPTION:a screening of _Barzakh_ by Mantas Kvedaravicius tomorrow at 5
 pm in the Darwin TV room. Mantas is PhD student in the dept of social anth
 ropology\, this is his first feature and it's being produced by Aki Kauris
 maki. The project hasn't reached its definitive form yet and Mantas is eag
 er to screen his film for people who can give him feedback\, so if you cou
 ld make it to the screening that would be great!\n\n Here's some more info
  about the documentary:\n\nIn a Chechen city recovering after the war a ma
 n disappears. As daily life goes by those in search are drawn into the wor
 ld where encounters with diviners and legal advisors\, with torturers and 
 tortured\, with secret prisons and mythical lakes become commonplace. When
  the disappeared do return in dreams\, they are said to come from Barzakh 
 - a land between the living and the dead.\nDocumentary was filmed in Chech
 nya with the help of local people who managed to keep the filming secret a
 nd filmmaker relatively safe during two years of shooting (Dec 2007 - Sept
  2009). Produced by Aki Kaurismaki (Sputnik OY) and Iikka Vehkalahti (YLE 
 TV) documentary is now in the pre-final cut stage (consulting editor Timo 
 Linnasalo). Sound\, music\, and color correction are in process. 72min\, H
 D
LOCATION:TV Screening Room\, Darwin College
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