You said Cinetrain?

Organising an itinerant film event; NISI MASA has been nurturing this crazy idea ever since the origins of the network. It took the arrival of the Russian association Moviement, for the dream to become reality.

For our enthusiastic Moscow-based colleagues creating Cinetrain was to bring up-to-date a unique working method, invented by Russian documentary filmmakers in the 1930s. Film crews, under the guidance of Aleksandr Medvedkin, used to travel through the Soviet Union in specially equipped wagons.

Although they were filming the industrial achievements of the regime, their underlying goal was to give the power of speech to people who didn’t normally have the opportunity to get their voices heard.

In 2008, the international workshop aims at ensuring the legacy of this spirit, but by focusing its interest on the notion of borders. “Did we just cross the European border?” 18 young filmmakers will constantly ask themselves along the 9 302 km of the mythic Trans-Siberian railroad track.

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