Riven chornoho
Black Level
Directed by
2017
Kostya is a photographer undergoing a midlife crisis: his girlfriend is leaving him and his father has been left paralysed following a stroke. This wordless film is both an examination of how to tell a story through animated images and a funny and disturbing story about modern loneliness. Black Level won the FIPRESCI prize at the Odessa International Film Festival in 2017. (Festival information, Fribourg 2017)
The Ecumenical Jury wants to put forward a special mention. Black Level by Valentin Vasjanovich is a courageous and innovative film with profoundly technical and symbolic dimensions.