Country: France
Year: 2011
Duration: 30'
Luba, an immigrant from Belarus, meets Ben, a French hobo who lives on the edge of Forgotten Lake. As they try to find a place for the girl to spend the night, the two wonder how to communicate despite the linguistic barriers. “LubaBen is about fictionalizing reality, pushing the limits between fiction and documentary. The actors play their own parts, and they actually meet for the first time on the first take of the shooting. The camera follows their journey, their torments, triggering actions and reactions. From this point of view, the real footage of Belorussian street fights between civilians and police is not an insert into fiction, but LubaBen is a fiction composed of different layers of documentary.”
Biography
film director
Eva Pervolovici
Eva Pervolovici (Romania) received a master’s degree in film studies in Edinburgh and was selected to participate in workshops in Berlin, Reykjavik and Sarajevo. She has taken part in numerous collective projects of graphics and writing, contemporaneously creating works of video art and photography and also making several short films. Her work has been presented and received awards at many international events, including the 2011 Berlinale, where she presented Little Red, a short film she made thanks to the Berlin Today Award. Her film Kiteling received the 2010 Cannes à la flip award for best film. She is now working on three feature films: Ileana, Marussa and You Can Call Me Ada.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Say It All (cm, 2003), Evadare (cm, 2004), The Wailers (cm, doc. 2005), Eu in Eu (cm, 2006), Climbing the Giraffe (cm, 2006), Amelia (cm, 2007), Video-poems: 5 Experimental Shorts (cm, 2007-2008), My Undone School Film (cm, 2007-2008), These Walls Are Made of Only Air Writer (cm, 2008), Down the Rabbit Hole (cm, 2009), A Portentous Death (cm, 2009), Kiteling (cm, 2010), Mina (cm, 2010), LubaBen (cm, 2010), Florentina (cm, 2011), Little Red (cm, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing
Eva Pervolovici
fotografia/cinematography
Zara Popovici
suono/sound
Filip Muresan, Felix Blume
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Luba Zhuromskaya (Luba), Benjamin Frizon de Lamotte (Ben)
produttore/producer
Anita Draghici
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
KinoElektron
coproduttore/coproducer
Janja Kralj
