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Kira Kovalenko / 78 / Russia // 2016
SOFICHKA Sunday, 12th March / 5pm The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street,
Price: â‚Ź7 Cast: Lana Basaria, Tsiala Inapshba, Sergey Tomashevsky, Said Kamkia.
Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village in Georgia after twenty years of absence. Seeing again home and meeting with villagers take her to memory lane and all Sofichka’s life passes before her eyes: her wedding with Rufus, betrayal of the neighbour Nuri, difficult years of war, exile in Siberia. But in spite of everything, in spite of all the tough experiences, Sofichka continues to believe in people and in life, staying true to the memory of her husband who died young. Tickets sold at the door and at silkroadfilmfestival.com
Paul Meschuh / 28 mins / Germany // 2016
BOAT PEOPLE Saturday, 11th March / 6pm Oolong, 4 Stephens Street Lower, Dublin 2 On his journey from Somalia to Europe, shipwrecked Moussa is picked up by a wealthy couple on their luxurious catamaran. The athletic young man is the only survivor of a disaster in the Mediterranean Sea and asks Hannes and Gerlinde to smuggle him across the border.
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