From Turku to Tallinn, there is a road that links the lands of Finland, Russia and Estonia. Memory, war, independence,occupation, identity, revolution, cooperation, this 2000 km route reflects the major upheavals of the 20th century. It hasbeen paced up and down for several months by two young French filmmakers and a Super 8 camera. Following theroute, they met three generations of people unveiling issues such as historical inheritance, otherness, national identities,sharing their dreams and aspirations. The protagonists of the film «The Detour» re-create the turbulent history ofthis route through their own lives and experiences.
Titel: The Detour
Type: Documentary film
Authors: Atelier Limo (Simon Brunel and Nicolas Pannetier)
Duration: 75 Min
Shooting Turku, Helsinki, Lappeenranta (FI), Vyborg, Zelenogorsk, St Petersburg (RU), Sillamäe,
locations: Tallinn (EST)
Format: HD - 16:9 - Stereo
Support: BluRay and DVD
Languages: Mostly English. Parts in Finnish, German, some in Russian and Estonian.
Subtitles: Estonian, Russian, Finnish, English and a special version with Estonian+Russian
we are glad to inform you that our film "La frontière intérieure - Die innere Grenze" will be shown at two occasions in April in Berlin. Two reasons to see it or to see it again!
- On 9th of April in the "Nachbarschaftshaus" Friedenau at 20.30. > for details see the Link
- On 27th of April in the morning within a one day long workshop called "Mauertag im April" in the gallery "Ausland" in Prenzlauerberg. The workshop is free of charges. 4 films/installations will be shown at the occasion. More info and registration here
After having finished the event "Border Speaking" in 2009 along the borders in Central Europe, Atelier Limo is glad to inform you that the website of their new project "the Detour" is now online: www.detour2011.eu
This project is part of the official program of European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 (EST) and European Capital of Culture Turku 2011 (FI).
By suggesting the project “the Detour” to Turku 2011 and Tallinn 2011, our aim was to raise the issue of shared memory between Finland and Estonia. To do so, we decided to link up both towns by solid land, making a detour by St Petersburg and Russia, the Great Eastern neighbour that has influenced the history of these two nations.
All the photographs, the sounds and the stories we collected during our journeys around the Gulf of Finland as well as the interviews of the people we met are all made available on this internet site. In the next weeks, we'll be again in Russia, Finland and Estonia to collect more material for our documentary film. We will inform you on our website.
In the meanwhile, we wish you a nice discovery!
The film "La frontière intérieure" will be shown in Stralsund (D) on 29.11 within the festival "PolenmARkt"
Within the festival PolenmARkt which takes place every year in the region of Greifswald (D) near to the polish border, the documentarfilm "La frontière intérieure" will be shown in the cinema "Ozeanum" in Stralsund on the Baltic Sea on 29.11.2010 at 18.00. You will find more information on those two links: link 1, link 2
Since September we are back in Berlin working on the project "The Detour". After having been collecting data for three months on the road between Turku, St Petersburg and Tallinn, we are now classifying all the information to set up a new database which will be soon available. About 5000 pictures, 60 interviews, 300 sound-records and other documents gathered on 150 places situated along the itinerary have now to be sorted out and edited. Some articles have already been written in Finland about the project, you can find them on the heading press.
Turku, Kaarina, Paimio, Salo, Tammisaari, Hanko, Porkkala, Helsinki, Porvoo, Pernaja, Kotka, Hamina, Vaalimaa, Lappeenranta, Imatra, Svetogorsk, Kondratyevo, Vyborg, Sovietsky, Primorsk, Zelenogorsk, Kronstadt, St Petersburg, Gatchina, Kingisepp, Ivangorod, Narva, Sinimäe, Sillimäe, Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve, Kunda, Rakvere, Kadrina, Viimsi, Nõmme, Tallinn...
These are the main stops of the itinerary of the project « The Detour ». A first journey of 3000 km has been made from Turku (FI) to Tallinn (EST) from the 21st of May to the 16th of June 2010 to collect data. This data (pictures, interviews and sound recordings) will be sorted out, selected and completed during future journeys this summer. The aim of this collection is to create a new website which will gather together the accounts and information in approximatively 100 to 150 selected places which tell us about the history and the memory shared by Finns, Russians and Estonians. In the meantime, you can already find in the heading « Database », a short overview with sounds and pictures of the visited places and the people we have encountered along the route.
"La frontière intérieure" shown for the 25th anniversary of the Schengen Agreement
The film "La frontière intérieure" has been shown in Thionville (FR) and in Schengen (LU) on 17th and 18th of June within the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Schengen Agreement. It was (again) a great occasion to discuss the film with the public after the screening.
The film "La frontière intérieure" has been shown on the extern border of the European Union!
4 screening were organized by the Foundation Borussia (www.borussia.pl) in: Braniewo (06/05/10), Bartoszyce (06/05/10), Węgorzewo (07/05/10), Gołdap (09/05/10).
Between the 5th and the 10th of May, the documentary film "La frontière intérieure" will be shown in 4 differents cities along the russian-polish border.