Turn Your Body to the Sun
Aliona van der Horst / NL, 2021 / 95 min.
Sana Valiulina studies the past of her taciturn, inscrutable father who spent ten years in one of Stalin’s camps. Featuring intimate letters, journal extracts and unique colour footage from the war, Aliona van der Horst tells an equal parts personal and universal story that still leaves deep scars to this day.
Author Sana Valiulina’s father never spoke about his past. Sana and her sister Dinar knew he had been in a camp after World War II, but not how he ended up there. After his death, Sana attempts to fill in the blanks in her father’s life to better understand the inaccessible man of her youth.
Details
Director
Aliona van der Horst
Production year
2021
Country
NL
Original title
Turn Your Body to the Sun
Length
95 min.
Language
Russian, Dutch, English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Accessibility
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