Olga

Tuesday 4 October at 8.30 pm

Movie screening
Olga

2013. A 15-year-old gymnast is torn between Switzerland, where she is training for the European Championships in preparation for the Olympics, and Ukraine where her mother, a journalist, is covering the events of Euromaidan.
“At the end of 2015, I co-directed a documentary about an orchestra, in the world of conservatories that I know well. I filmed a Ukrainian violinist who arrived in Switzerland just before Euromaidan. The trouble with which she told me about the revolution, and the way the images had affected her, touched me deeply. I found there the junction between the different motives that interested me for my first feature film: to film the passion of a teenager, the body in action, and to put face to face her individual and collective stakes. To explore the possible link between geographical borders and intimate borders. To make a film about exile, with a heroine who feels out of place, torn between several loyalties, and confronted with a geopolitical situation that is beyond her. How can she reconcile her personal desire with the course of history?” Elie Grappe

Directed by Elie Grappe, staring Anastasia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio

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Cinéma Le Méliès
Admission: 7 €
Duration: 1 h 27