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A feature-length documentary, Kvadrat explores the realities of techno DJing, using the example of Andrey PUSHKAREV, a Russian DJ recognized worldwide. Filmed as a hybrid between a road-movie and a music video, the film not only illustrates the festive atmosphere of techno night clubs, but also reveals the lesser known side of this profession: weeks of track selection, lengthy travel, difficult schedule. The film suggests to reconsider the stereotype of a popular musician, to find out whether the artist is happy, to ponder what's most important to him and his audience? Shot in Switzerland, France, Hungary, Romania and Russia, the film omits the typical documentary elements: no interviews, no explanatory voice-over, no facts, no figures. The visuals and the techno music replace them, leaving the detailed interpretation to the viewer.

They got off the last train at Abbesses, a deep metro station in Montmartre, Paris. 9 tired men and a drag queen skip the lengthy stairs and take the elevator. The door closes, but jams. The station closes down for the night. They're stuck. Between the ages of 17 and 70, from different backgrounds and social classes, they have little in common, other than their gender. They try to work together to unlock the door, to get help. And fail. As a group, as individuals, as a conversation. But a long night is ahead of them, confined and bored, anxious and indifferent, submissive and aggressive, forgotten and found - to break free, to grow up, to discover what it is to be a man in the 21 century.

Shot to music and without words, this short un-documentary exposes the quasi-magical creative process of Christine AUGER, a French painter of Contemporary Abstract Expressionism. An unlikely combination of scotch tape, acrylic paint and digital photography. A stunning transformation of pigmented miniatures into huge transparencies of saturated color. The hidden gestures of the artist, caught on film.

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An exploration of the dead-ends in downtown Paris juxtaposed with the endless roads of Russia, as a metaphor to the lives of their inhabitants. A musical of techno loops, boundless tracks of humans in transit.

A philosophical adventure biopic, 08.20 is a contemporary story of a young Moscow photographer in search of meaning, contribution and purpose. He rejects a safe, well-fed and quiet future, then struggles to transcend his austere childhood. His goal: transform the surrounding Russian bleakness into vivid color photographs. To develop his artistic sensibility, a method: destroy the rational, the educated mind. Take risks, shoot heroin, experiment with sex and techno. His artworks grow, the Universe has his back. He dodges bullets, runs from cops and dupes his parents. To mature as a pro, he moves to Paris, the city of photography. Where he clashes with consumerism, post-modernism and the art establishment. So he amplifies the reckless habits, approaches the revelation. Until his new French girlfriend sways him towards comfort, advertising projects, money, health and family. Good fortune? Or a fatal mistake? Can he have it all? Or has he left the path of self-realization? Spanning 3 decades, the film portrays the work and doubts of a photojournalist, as he confronts the ethics of war photography, dives into music press awash with drugs, then photographs extreme sports (climbing, cycling, aerobatics and sailing), searching for his artistic core, questioning the boundaries between an artist and a sell-out. Shot in Moscow, Ural, Paris, Berlin, the Atlantic Ocean and the Alps; out of sequence, scene by scene, it assembles a puzzle of debauchery and sadness, of pleasure and sacrifice, of free will and fate. A dialogue of cultures, in English, French and Russian. A visually-stunning love story, with an abrupt and ambiguous ending.