Voices from Chernobyl
Based on the book by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, the haunting and beautiful Voices From Chernobyl gives scientists, teachers, journalists, couples and children a chance to speak about their daily lives, which were devastated by the most unlikely of disasters. Drawing inspiration from filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, Cruchten takes the audience on a spiritual and poetic journey through this horror, juxtaposing their softly spoken, angerless words – which reflect on the atrocities suffered by the victims of this accident -- with images of mesmerizing aestheticism.
World premiere: Trieste Film Festival 2016 (Trieste, Italy)
2016
Festival International du Film d’Environnement de Paris – Le Grand Prix (Paris, France)
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival – Best Documentary (Minneapolis, USA)
2017
FICA - GRAND PRIX AND PRIX DE LA CRITIQUE
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (Washington D.C., USA)
Cine Eco - Serra da Estrela International Environmental Film Festival (Seia, Portugal)
Festival du Cinéma Russe Honfleur (Honfleur, France)
Tasmanian eco Film Festival (Hobart, Australia)
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Innsbruck, Austria)
Quinzaine du cinéma francophone (Centre Wallonie - Bruxelles/Paris)
Les Rencontres cinématographiques (Cerbère, France)
Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cavaillon (Cavaillon, France)
FICA (San Sebastian, Spain)
Rencontres des Cinémas d'Europe (Aubenas, France)
Saint Malo - Festival Étonnants Voyageurs (St. Malo, France)
Trieste Film Festival (Triest, Italy)
Luxembourg City Film Festival (Luxembourg)
Alès Film Festival (Alès, France)
International Festival of Environmental Film (Paris, France)
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (Minneapolis, USA)
DOK.fest (München, Germany)
Ökofilmtour - Brandenburger Festival des Umwelt- und Naturfilms (Potsdam, Germany)
Gabes Film Festival (Tunisia)