Bonfire, Dmitrii Davydov’s debut feature, follows the life of a Yakut elder.
Dmitrii Davydov was born in the far north of the Russian Arctic. He became a teacher and set up a youth group whose experiments with video sparked his own interest in filmmaking. Bonfire was made with a cast of local people from his Yakut village. It follows the life of a Yakut elder, living alone in this decaying Soviet-era village, as his unlikely friendship with a truanting teenager helps both overcome their own personal hardships. Set in the depths of a Siberian winter, the film is an unsentimental look at life in Russia today, in one of its remotest, toughest and most beautiful regions.
The film will be introduced by Falmouth University lecturer and former Associated Press Moscow Bureau Chief, Kate de Pury, and her husband, artist and theatre designer Ivan Kochkarev.
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This screening was originally planned for 20 November, 2020.