We Need Happiness

director: Alexei Jankowski, Alexander Sokurov

original title: Il nous faut du bonheur

country: France

year: 2010

running time: 52 min.

synopsis

FilmSNOW bears traces of the style of Alexander Sokurov, whose long, silent shots unite the incongruity of physical and mental reality. This film, which looks at the border villages in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region, is marked by a similar inner conflict. The Kurds’ history of humiliation and murder has marked entire families, including that of Svetlana, a former citizen of the Soviet Union.

more about film

director:	Alexei Jankowski, Alexander Sokurov
producer:	Alexei Jankowski
script:	Alexander Sokurov, Alexei Jankowski
photography:	Sara Cornu
editing:	Alexei Jankowski
music:	Mehdi Hosseini
sound:	Makar Akhpachev, Dominique Vieillard, Vladimir Ozemkov

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