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National Premiere, IDF Competition: Feature Documentaries, 2024

Abode of Dawn

黎明之居Sonnenstadt

Director Kristina Shtubert

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Where do you go when the world becomes too much, when everything feels wrong? Can you escape reality and start a new life? The film follows a community that has built a utopian society in the Siberian taiga. Since the 1990s they have followed Vissarion, a man who regards himself as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. In the Abode of Dawn his portrait hangs in every home; he is less a presence than an object of the residents' longing, the centre their lives revolve around like planets around the sun, though he rarely appears. The film does not ask whether Vissarion is the son of God, but whether the people here are happier than before they came.

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Screenings2

Fri, 10/23

19:00End time to be confirmed

Theatre 113, Building No.11

1023-B11-1900Subtitles unknown

Sat, 10/24

15:30End time to be confirmed

Theatre, Building No.2

1024-B2-1530Subtitles unknown

Film details

Director: Kristina Shtubert
Original title: Sonnenstadt
Country/Region: Germany
Year: 2024
Length: 105min
Section: IDF Competition: Feature Documentaries
Edition: West Lake International Documentary Festival 2026, No. 8
Original language: Russian
Premiere: National Premiere
Selection: Competitive section
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Kristina Shtubert

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Director: Kristina Shtubert
Production company: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb)

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