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Taskovski Films heads to this year’s edition of the European Film Market – EFM with 6 new titles premiering/ looking for a World Premiere in 2021.

We highlight this year two of our latest coming-of-age additions “What Makes us Boys” and “The Age of Innocence“, documentaries questioning and rethinking the basis of European education, family relations, and the chaotic digital world we’re living in.

“Beyond the White” showcases life in villages lost in time beyond the polar circle in Northern Russia, while “The Admiral Tchumakov” presents us the last remains of extinct ideology in the figure of Boris Vassilievitch Chumakov, the USSR admiral in the northeast of Kyrgyzstan. Both tackling the topic of post-USSR societies.

Finally, we are proud to present at EFM “Venice Elsewhere” and “Talking Like Her” splendid art world documentary explorations. The first of them showcases the iconic city of Venice in its glory all around the world, while the second one sends us on an investigation into the mysterious life events of the trailblazing musician Connie Converse.

More details regarding films as follows:

What Makes Us Boys – Premiering in Spring 2021

2021, BELGIUM, 85′, JANET VAN DEN BRAND & TIMOTHY WENNEKES

Growing up is a difficult business. There’s so much more to it than awkward inconveniences, puberty, and acne. It takes courage to find out and become who you really are. What makes us Boys is a poetic and intimate coming-of-age documentary film that follows a teenager and his younger brother growing up in today’s digital world.

The Age of Innocence – Premiering in 2021

2021, ITALY, 80′, ENRICO MAISTO

The Age of Innocence is the story of a sentimental education: a son facing the parting from his mother and trying to build a path to adulthood. In an age of eternally adolescent children and aging parents, the director digs into his own intimacy and rethinks the bond with his mother.

Venice Elsewhere – World Premiere Available

2021, ITALY, 62′, ELIA ROMANELLI

Venice is a beauty parlour in Zagreb, a giant mall in Istanbul, a Romanian village with more sheep than people, a waterway in the periphery of Berlin… Personal stories told by a handful of characters around the world who have never set foot in Venice, but who all have intimate ties with the city.

Beyond the White –  World Premiere Available

2021, GERMANY, 90′, EVGENY KALACHIKHIN

Three villages combined in one timeless space – somewhere beyond the polar circle. In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, stone, and sand. Nature provides for them, mainly the White Sea.

Cut off from vital infrastructure, almost forgotten by regional governance, these people have to cope with their everyday struggles. Their hamlets seem to head toward the fate of many other villages all over Russia: a slow but inevitable extinction.

Talking Like Her –  World Premiere Available

2021, USA, FRANCE, 60′, NATACHA GILES

Connie Converse was a trailblazing musician in the 1950s who bared her soul through emotionally complex songs before America was accustomed to such candor from women. After years of disappointment, Connie had packed her car, said her goodbyes, and mysteriously vanished, leaving every trace of her life in neatly indexed drawers, waiting to be discovered.

In Talking Like Her, director Natacha Giler pieces together the clues Connie left behind. As she teases apart the facts of her life and the legend constructed by a new generation of admirers, she questions how much the world has really changed for outcasts like Connie.

The Admiral Tchumakov –  World Premiere Available

2021, BELGIUM/ FRANCE, 64′, LAURIER FOURNIAU, ARNAUD ALBEROLA

In the northeast of Kyrgyzstan, perched in high mountains, Lake Issyk Kul is one of the five deepest lakes in the world. On its shores, dark constructions of cement and steel meddle with olds wrecks. It is the port of Balyktchy, abandoned for years and slowly starting now its conversion into a resort. (https://househummus.com)

Here lies the pride of an admiral of the Soviet navy: Boris Vassilievitch Chumakov. The joyful, restless, yet terribly melancholic figure, the Admiral reveals himself to be some sort of allegory of what remains of the soviet man 30 years after the fall of the USSR.