Dmitri Makhomet
Directing
Biography
Dmitri Makhomet - born in 1975 in Malye Azerki, Belarus. Graduated from The Belarusian State Academy of Arts and in Le Frenois School (head of studies – C. Akerman) in France. An author of numerous films, among which FORGOTTEN IN NARVILISHKY (2014). A participant of international film festivals. Lives and works in Paris.
Known For
A bitter twist of fate: during the drawing of demarcation lines between the Soviet Republics in 1939 nobody dared remove Stalin’s pipe from the map, consequently the borders were drawn around it. It was thus that the Belarusian village of Narvilishky ended up being allocated to Lithuania. At the time nobody foresaw the implications of this decision.
Forgotten in Narvilishky
Every year, on Easter, the church inevitably encounters an endless stream of believers, many of whom come here only once a year - on this day. What do they expect from this holiday? What are they hoping for? What are they searching for?
Easter
A village. A house in that village. An old woman comes back there for summer. Day after day she tries to renew life in this almost abandoned and overgrown with grass place, resisting nature and the passing time.