The New York Film Festival opens September 24, and Fedorchenko’s Silent Soul’s, winner of several awards and the Venice Film Festival, is participating in the competition.
The festival’s website describes the film as follows: “Ancient customs and traditions live on in the wake of the former Soviet Union in Silent Souls, yet another bracing sign of life for serious filmmaking in the now-fragmented land. A brooding, poetic, hauntingly beautiful art film of the old school, albeit shot through with a modern frankness about society and sex, this short feature from Russian director Alexei Fedorchenko centers on a unique sort of road trip.”
Another interesting film on the slate is Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy. “Weaving together several stories, Sergei Loznitsa creates an unsettling portrait of a world deceptively tranquil in appearance but harboring long-festering resentments and violence that can surface without warning,” the festival’s website describes the film.
The festival will open with David Fincher’s Social Network, which tells the turbulent story of the founders of Facebook.
