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Inner Lines documentary

Original title
Inner Lines
Year
Running time
87 min.
Country
Belgium Belgium
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Screenwriter
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Cinematography
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Co-production Belgium-France;
Genre
Documentary
Synopsis
In military terminology, Inner Lines are parallel routes near the enemy lines, enabling evasion. Around Ararat, “the white centre” that illuminates “the darkest times”, they are used by messengers and their carrier pigeons to connect the communities scattered by conflict. Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd continues his powerful political and poetic body of work with this film shot in 16mm between Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh. Remaining faithful to a formal approach blending the outline of the film-image with the asynchronous sonic off-camera – harrowing testimonies, biblical narrative, whispered secrets, political discourses and rants, close or distant explosions –, he walks alongside Yazidis or Armenians ravaged by the insatiable Moloch of war. Voices bring humanity to bleak landscapes, bodies lean over to listen to age-old stones laden with memories and gazes burn with inextinguishable inner sorrow. Vandeweerd remains the essential and exacting filmmaker-geographer of lost territories.

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Inner Lines
2022
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
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