Travelling in Eastern Europe

At the end of the day, several short films of the participants are screened at the Dom Kino along with one Cinetrain film made by Medvedkin. In the big cinema hall audience seems quite scarce, but there's still about 60 people coming just to watch unknown short films. The introducing speeches last even longer than the screenings themselves. Guillaume, who knows Russia as an insider (but still keeps a critical external look at it) explains that Russians love to thank everyone and firstly themselves. Self-appreciation or self-flattering! There's apparently even a specific verb in Russian for that!

The films include Snail Race by Monika from Poland; Forever Love by Andrei from Romania; Together by Denes from Hungary; and Track Change on which Marton, from Hungary too, was Director of Photography. By chance, three of the films are directly connected with the question of travelling. Only Snail Race deals with another issue, problems of non-communication within a couple (not an easy one!). The extravagant Track change takes place on a train (!!). A no man's land station somewhere between Hungary and Russia (one has to know that Hungary has no border with Russia, only to Ukraine). It notably includes scary Russian provodnitsa... The very stylised Together follows young Ukrainian men, illegally emigrating to Budapest. More of a comedy, Forever Love tells in a humorous tone a tragedy of exile. Returning in Romania from abroad, a young man discovers that the fiancé he was planning to marry made it up with his best friend...