Voices

DIRECTORS: Pierre-Yves Dalka, Ekaterina Izmestyeva   COUNTRIES: Russia, Germany   YEAR: 2017   LANGUAGE(S): German, Russian   SUBTITLES: English   RUNNING TIME: 29 min  

SECTION: International Forum 2017, Short Film Programme Oppose Othering!

SCREENINGS

Sunday, 01.10., 3.00 p.m., kinoeins, Q&A with Pierre-Yves Dalka, Ekaterina Izmestyeva and Karolina Panferova

SYNOPSIS
Singing. Voice training. How do I become a man or a woman? The sound of our voices determines the perception of our gender. This makes it a daily obstacle for transgender individuals who are struggling to be accepted. VOICES portrays people in Moscow and Berlin who are speaking out – with voices that reflect who they are inside.

PIERRE-YVES DALKA

Pierre-Yves Dalka was born in 1988. He grew up in South Africa and studied cultural and comparative literary studies in Germany. He has been making fiction and documentary films from a young age on, with a special focus on social issues intertwined with individual biographies. Two important exmaples are his films Heimat, in which he discusses the situation of refugees in Germany and Bleib bei mir concerning the oppression of homosexual relationships.

FILMOGRAPHY

Heimat (2012), Bleib bei mir (2016)

EKATERINA IZMESTYEVA
Ekaterina Izmestyeva was born in 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She finished Ballet School, and graduated first from Moscow Pedagogical University (M. A. Philology) in 2010 and then from VGIK – Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (film studies). For the last three years she has been working as a film editor and camera operator for Russian media stations. Since 2011 she is involved in the Russian LGBTQI-movement as activist and documentary filmmaker. She now studies film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany.

FILMOGRAPHY
Voices (2016)

SCRIPT:    PRODUCER: Karolina Panferova   CAMERA: Ekaterina Izmestyeva, Pierre-Yves Dalka   EDITOR: Ekaterina Izmestyeva  
PRODUCTION:    WORLD SALES: Rebecca Podlech, Pierre-Yves Dalka  

WEBSITE
http://oppose-othering.de/2016/12/01/voices