Somewhere in Europe there is a forbidden zone. Lying in the heart of this zone is Pripyat, at one time a model city inhabited by some 50,000 people. On April 26, 1986, an invisible enemy forced the residents of Pripyat and surrounding villages to evacuate the area in order to escape. Constructed in the early 1970s, Pripyat is now a ghost town. The land it was constructed upon has reverted back to its natural state, but traces of its former occupants are still visible some twenty years after.
2006 : Etats generaux du film documentaire, Lussas (France) ; Doclisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) ; Watch Docs Human Rights in Film, Warsaw (Poland)
2007 : Europe’s Point of Divergence/Convergence, Lublin (Poland) ; Belgrade Documentary & Short Film Festival (Serbia) ; Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha (Qatar) ; Dokfilm, Volda (Norway) ; Documenta, Madrid (Spain) ; L’Inconnu Festival, Paris (France) ; Envirofilm, Banska Bystrica (Slovakia) ; Doxa Documentary Film & Video Festival, Vancouver (Canada) ; Festival de Cine de Huesca (Spain) ; Dokufest, Documentary & Short Film Festival, Prizren (Kosovo) ; Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey (Mexique) ; Luksuz Festival (Slovenia) ; International Short Film Festival In The Palace, Balchik (Bulgaria) ; Perspektive, Int. Human Rights Film Festival, Nuremberg (Germany) ; International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey) ; Ekofilm 2007, Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic) ; Festival de Cine de Bogota (Colombia) ; International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg (Sweden) ; Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, (Switzerland) ; Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostela, (Spain) ; Detroit Docs International Film Festival, Detroit (USA) ; Les Instants Vidéos de Marseille (France) ; Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton (Canada) ; Festival Chileno Internacional del Cortometraje, Santiago de Chile (Chile) ; Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (Quebec, Canada) ; L’Alternativa, Festival de Cinema independent, Barcelona (Spain) ; Dakino, Bucharest (Romania) ; Plateforma Video7, Athens (Greece)
2008 : Filmwinter, Stuttgart (Germany)
- Festival Int'l de Cine de Monterrey (Mexique, 08/2007) Jury Second Prize
- Detroit Docs Int'l Film Festival, Detroit (USA, 10/2007) Best Short Film
Blandine Huk
Born in 1969 in Mulhouse. Journalist specialist of central and eastern Europe. She worked with Frederic Cousseau on the documentary length film Sakhaline (2006) as assistant director. Un dimanche a Pripiat (2006) is her first film as director.
Frederic Cousseau
Born in 1959 in Paris. After being a rock/punk musician, he began to direct films in the late 1980s. Des pieds et des mains (1989) ; Bartolin (1991) ; La fatigue (1999) ; Le 17 au soir (2005) ; Sakhaline (2006) ; Un dimanche a Pripiat (co-r : Blandine Huk, 2006).
Director: Blandine HUK, Frederic COUSSEAU
26 min. 2006 DV, színes, szöveges, Ukrainian/Russian, English felírattal
Forgatókönyv: Blandine HUK, Frederic COUSSEAU
Operatőr: Frederic COUSSEAU
Zeneszerző: Herve ZENOUDA
Vágó: Blandine HUK, Frederic COUSSEAU
