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PRODUCTIONPavel Mozhar
pavel.mozhar@posteo.de
www.fbw-filmbewertung.com/film...
www.jonasroemmig.de
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World Sales
Pavel Mozhar
pavel.mozhar@posteo.de
www.fbw-filmbewertung.com/film...
www.jonasroemmig.de
Handbook
Synopsis
How do you go about crushing a protest? Handbook provides a comprehensive answer to this question. It includes almost everything, except no actual beatings take place in this instruction video.It’s August 2020. While in Minsk protests are mounting against Lukashenko’s re-election, Pavel Mozhar follows the developments in his homeland from his room in Berlin. Over these few days, around 7,000 protesters were arrested by the notorious OMON riot police.
Mozhar studied hundreds of witness statements on the internet and discovered there was a systemic approach to the oppression. He transforms his room into a studio where he stages re-enactments of witness testimonies by a “police officer” wearing black clothes and a balaclava, and four “detainees” dressed identically in shirts and jeans. The result is distressingly instructive. [IDFA 2021]
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Director of photography
- Editor (Cut)Florian Seufert, Pavel Mozhar
- Sound
- Sound Design
- otherFriedi Blume (Artistic Design)
Festivals/awards
Seal of Approval ‘highly recommended’2021
64 DOK Leipzig
IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary
2022
15 Glasgow Short Film Festival
Docs Against Gravity
International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Hamburg Short Film Award
15 CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF, Luxembourg
KFFK Cologne
World Sales
Cast & Crew
Pavel MozharPavel Mozhar, Kolja Wolle
Jonas Römmig
Florian Seufert, Pavel Mozhar
Joscha Eickel, Bertold Budig
Ganna Gryniva
Friedi Blume (Artistic Design)
