The day before the screening of 'Eastern Front', its director, Vitaly Mansky, and Alba Sotorra will have a dialogue, moderated by Marc Marginedas, about documentary filmmaking in the midst of armed conflicts.
What are the challenges when filming a war or bringing real stories to the big screen against the backdrop of an armed conflict? What role does the documentary gaze play as a political positioning and what is the implication behind directing documentaries while highlighting the more human side of war? How does the filmmaker find hope in the midst of war? What filmmaking decisions do they make to show the rawness and violence, but at the same time, hope? How does one write the script/editing of a war film from a perspective where hope prevails? When does the filmmaker realise they are in front of a great sequence in the midst of the conflict?
