As part of the 5th BEAST International Film Festival, OKNA is pleased to be hosting a screening* of What We Shared, a documentary by Kamila Kuc, on Thursday, 22 September from 18:00.
WHAT WE SHARED Kamila Kuc | Poland | 2021 | DOC. | 69’ | LEG. PT/EN
*The screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with the director.
What We Shared unfurls a web of stories of seven inhabitants of a de facto state on the Black Sea. Stories about loss and displacement through the re-imaginings of dreams and memories of the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia.
Kamila Kuc is a Polish-born, London-based filmmaker. She has an MA in Film Studies by Birkbeck College (2009), a PhD in Film Studies by Birkbeck College (2013) and an MFA in Experimental Film by Kingston University (2016). She was awarded a 2021 Jarman Award and IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI nominee. Her first feature film, What We Shared (2021), premiered at the 65th BFI London Film Festival and was described as one of ‘the finest examples of UK filmmaking’ by Festival Scope. Her films have screened at many festivals and galleries worldwide. Kamila is also the Founder and Director of Dark Spring Studio, a London-based production company dedicated to the creation and distribution of artist moving image works that are committed to social change. -- BEAST IFF Territories explores the makings and manifestations of the concept of “place” by showcasing films produced in locations stuck in-between the traditional definitions. Through filmmaking and documenting locations with these particular qualities and the stories that unfold inside them, a new meaning is brought to what it means to be grounded in a place. The aim of the programme is to raise a thought about what true aspects make a place and how people's lives can shape it.
With its fifth edition, BEAST International Film Festival returns to the big screens of Porto with a selection primarily aimed at films that have Eastern Europe as its backdrop. While exploring the Balkans, the Baltics and Post-Communist countries, the festival contextualises its work in the context of differentiated debates on film aesthetics, socio-political, and cinematic theoretical topics. BEAST IFF is all about representation of talents, arousing curiosity and questioning common clichés about Eastern Europe.
More info: https://beastfilm.pt/films/what-we-shared/ Free entry. #beastiff #culturaokna
