A YEAR FULL OF DRAMA
original title: “Aasta täis draamat”
year: 2019
genre: documentary
duration: 106 min
festivals: Sydney Film Festival 2020, New Zealand International Film Festival 2020
director: Marta Pulk
producer: Paul Piik
editor: Hendrik Mägar
production company: Ettevaatlik Sten
synopsis
Could art be indeed a life-changing tool? Countryside girl Alissija, born to a Russian-speaking family, has never stepped into a theatre. However, the peculiar experimental audition chooses her for a paid role: to watch and review every theatre production in Estonia for a whole year. This overwhelming experience not only puts her through 224 performances in 365 days and challenges her to suddenly plunge into an immense amount of culture, but also makes her redefine her past, present and future, her inner self. An authentic coming-of-age story questioning the limits of cultural consumption and the power of art....