Ilya POVOLOTSKY
Илья ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ
Ilia POVOLOTSKI
Russia, 2023, 119mn 
fiction
Grace
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Блажь

 

 La Grâce

 Blazh

 
Directed by : Ilya POVOLOTSKY (Илья ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ)
Writing credits : Ilya POVOLOTSKY (Илья ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ)
 
Cast
Gela CHITAVA (Гела ЧИТАВА) ...father
Mariya LUKYANOVA (Мария ЛУКЬЯНОВА)
Kseniya KUTEPOVA (Ксения КУТЕПОВА)
 
Cinematography : Nikolay ZHELUDOVICH (Николай ЖЕЛУДОВИЧ)
Editing : Ilya POVOLOTSKY (Илья ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ)
Production : Black Chamber
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk
Release date in France : 2024-01-24, Site

Awards :
Best Cinematography Nikolay ZHELUDOVICH , Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm (Sweden), 2023

Plot synopsis
The feature debut of documentary filmmaker Ilya Povolotsky tells about the journey of a father and daughter who have been looking for peace for many years with an urn with the ashes of their mother.
 

Commentaries
La Grâce de Ilya Povolotsky — L’intraduisible bizarrerie., Ekaterina NIKOLSKI, ekatenikolski.portfoliobox.net, 2024
Entretien avec Ilya Povolotsky [A propos de son film Grâce], Ilya POVOLOTSKY, Bodegafilms, bodegafilms.com, 2024
"Ilya Povolotsky’s Grace (Blazh) is one of the most stunning feature debuts in recent memory.", International Cinephile Company, 2023
Grace [La Grâce (Блажь), 2023, de Ilia POVOLOTSKI], Victor FRAGA, dmovies.org, 2023
La Grâce - Ilya Povolotsky - critique, Anaëlle PACCARD, avoir-alire.com, 2023
La Grâce : un voyage à travers la Russie avec Ilya POVOLOTSKY à Cannes 2023, Julie M., sortiraparis.com, 2023
La Grâce d’Ilya Povolotsky, Alice LEROY, Cahiers du cinéma, 2023
Bodega acquiert un film de la Quinzaine des Cinéastes [La Grâce (Блажь), 2023, de Ilia POVOLOTSKI], Tanguy COLON, boxofficepro.fr, 2023
Cannes 2023 : La Grâce, aux lisières du Caucase, le spleen des confins, Mathieu MACHERET, Le Monde, 24/05/2023, 2023
CANNES 2023 Quinzaine des Cinéastes. Critique : Grace, Davide ABBATESCIANNI, cineuropa.org, 2023
Что ищет он в краю далеком. Блажь — единственный российский фильм в каннской программе [Critique du film La Grâce, 2023, de Ilia POVOLOTSKI], Larisa MALUKOVA, novaya.media, 2023
Ilya Povolotsky: Grace (Blazh’, 2023), Birgit BEUMERS, Kinokultura, 2023
 
An old camper van passes through an obscure Russian province, carrying a teen girl, her father and a rusty film projector. They've been on the road for a long time, drifting among the eerie picturesque "nowhere's". She's used to his melancholy and random women. He puts up with her whims. But everything changes on the way up North, when their world packed into the tight space of the car along with hopes, hurts, fears, and unburied past - eventually explodes.

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian cinema beyond borders, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2024
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2024-01-24
- Pune International film Festival. PIFF, Pune (India), 2024
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2024
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2024
- Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey), 2024
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2023
- Festival de cinéma Cap à l'Est, Montpellier (France), 2023
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), 2023
- Torino Film Festival, Turin (Italy), 2023
- KARO.Art International Festival of Cinéma d'auteur, Different cities (Russia), 2023
- San Sebastian International Film Festival, San Sebastian (Spain), 2023
- Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm (Sweden), 2023

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