Teen Dox

Away

Ruslan Fedotow
Screening time  
27.03. / Monday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 4  
30.03. / Thursday, 17:00 - 19:00 Theatre 5  

A heartbreaking portrait of 16-year-old Ukrainian refugees Andrey and Alisa, who help out at a school for refugee children in Budapest. The children use confrontational, adult vocabulary to describe their experiences of war. A young boy earnestly goes through a number of battle strategies, and a girl provides a vivid account of a rocket attack. After school, the young couple make colorful protest artwork out on the streets of the Hungarian capital, sparking discussions between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian passersby. The camera films the pair without commentary, capturing the everyday fun had by two teenagers in love, as well as the difficult phone calls to the home front and growing awareness of their wrecked youth.

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Ruslan Fedotow

Ruslan Fedotow was born in Belarus, and began his career as cinematographer. He graduated from the Academy of Arts and moved to Moscow, where he graduated from the Moscow School of New Cinema in 2015. Since then, he started to experiment as a documentary filmmaker. His first movie Salamanca premiered at the IDFA in 2015. His second movie, Songs for Kit was selected by the IDFA in 2017. First feature documentary film Where Are We Headed? was premiered at IDFA in 2021 and won two awards (Best first feature and best cinematography), and was also screened at True/False, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Docpoint (Best international doc film), Camerimage, Artdocfest, Hong-Kong Film Festival, etc. In addition to these films, he has worked as cinematographer for many documentary movies that have screened at festivals such as the LA Film Festival, Vision du Réel, Hotdocs, etc.

General sponsor

Away

Hungary, Belgium, Portugal
2022, 28'

Directed by:
Ruslan Fedotow

Cinematography:
Ruslan Fedotow

Edited by:
Ruslan Fedotow

Producer:
Ruslan Fedotow

Produced by:
DocNomads

Festivals & Awards:

IDFA: Best short film (2022), Verzio (2022), Flickerfest (2022)