“Train Stops for Five Minutes” travels to festivals

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2009 Septermbet 30 d.

A new full-length documentary film directed by Janina Lapinskaitė, Train Stops for Five Minutes, starts its journey around international festivals.

 

On 1 – 7 October the film has been invited to participate in the open competition of the Yekaterinburg Documentary Film Festival “Rossia” where the director will present her film. Later the film will travel to the forum Prix Europa, which will take place in Berlin on 18 – 23 October.

 

For more on the festivals see:

http://www.rossia-doc.ru/

http://www.prix-europa.de/

 

The film Train Stops for Five Minutes tells about a town N and its people. “It has been long since the sound of train carriages rolling on the rails beat the rhythm of their lives. A huge stone on the Railway Station Square reminds of the moments when the train used to stop here for longer in order to swallow thousands of people only to spit them out in the wide open spaces of Siberia . Now it stops only for five minutes. Yet this is enough time for farewell kisses and a promise to return. Town N is populated by those who have built homes and given birth to their children here for a purpose, because nothing happens just by chance. Thus, ordinary everyday life in a provincial town N hides people’s extraordinary dreams, memories, discoveries and losses,” the director tells about her film.

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