Tartudok2024: Meet The Auteur at Elektriteater is the first Arts of Survival Documentaries event series. This year we are hosting a dozen film directors from Europe in South Estonia, who will bring their best works to Elektriteater. The programme is curated by Arts of Survival Documentaries Artistic Director Kaarel Kuurmaa, who will open a discussion with the auteurs after the films. Our first guest of November is a film director, social activist and traveller, Ulyana Osovska, from Ukraine.
SCHEDULE
16.00 Tales of a Toy Horse (2022, 72 min)
17.15 Q&A with Uljana Osovskaga about the filmmaker’s situation in Ukraine. Moderated by Kaarel Kuurmaa.
The film is with English subtitles. The entrance is free!
Tales of a Toy Horse (2021, 72 min)
An intimate and poetic cinema verite with animated interludes reveals the philosophy of life of an old monk and artist, who for many years kept his monastic vow to find something good every day. Combining spiritual life with social activism since 2014, he takes multiple trips to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbas, where his vow is challenged by the war-torn reality. (Docpoint)