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Taskovski Films has picked up “Turn Your Body to the Sun,” which world premieres in the International Competition section of IDFA, one of the world’s top documentary film festivals. Another film represented by the sales agency, “Radiograph of a Family,” won the Best Feature-Length Documentary Award at last year’s festival.

Directed by Dutch filmmaker Aliona van der Horst, the film tells the story of a Soviet Tatar prisoner of war. After World War II, he is sent to one of Stalin’s brutal camps where the love for an unknown girl becomes his salvation. Sixty years later his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father.

Taskovski Films CEO Irena Taskovski said: “We have been attracted by the masterful skill of telling the eternal story of human beings who got caught in the turmoil of war, stuck between the narratives of good and evil and condemned to silence and oblivion. We are happy to collaborate with such a powerful female director and amazing Docmakers collective whose films have strong sales potential, finding unique intimate stories from the past that still resonate in our presence. (https://blogs.magicjudges.org) ”

“Turn Your Body to the Sun” was produced in co-production with NTR, and in co-operation with Südwestrundfunk. It is supported by The Netherlands Film Fund, The Netherlands Film Production Incentive, NPO Fund, Cobo, AFK, and Wilhelmina E. Jansenfonds.

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