The ability to empathy - the ability to remain a decent person Automatic translate

MOSCOW. The winner of "Artdocfest" was the film "Liberation: instructions for use."

Commenting on the results of the ended Artdocfest festival, its president, director Vitaly Mansky, bitterly spoke of the lack of a well-thought-out system of state support for non-fiction cinema. As a result, worthy projects are often left without grants, and hundreds of other ribbons, including “beneficent ones,” do not reach the viewer.

The director of the film “Brief Instructions for the Release”, who won the festival’s Grand Prix, could only find a sponsor five years after the filming began. The financial support was provided by the French National Cinema Foundation, thanks to which the work was completed within a year. Since mid-October, "Instruction" - in the French box office. One can only dream of a domestic director Alexander Kuznetsov, like many of his colleagues. It is unlikely that this indicates that the Western audience a priori is more willing to respond to someone else’s misfortune. The ability to empathy, readiness for mental expenses, intolerance to hypocrisy and injustice are formed from childhood. As a habit, regularly brush your teeth, cross the road to green light, the ability to read and write. Mandatory vaccination of decency, and in this case, no perturbations in society will make the soul small. Temptations in black unexpectedly see white and act in bad conscience, again, there is much less.

In the western box office, Kuznetsov’s film is titled “Everything Will Be Alright”. The hope that is most needed by those for whom and for whom this tape was created. Among the residents of psycho-neurological boarding schools - at least 10% of those who ended up in such institutions not because of a hopeless mental state. Incorrect diagnosis, impossibility or unwillingness of relatives to make efforts to correct not so significant age-related problems at home - there are many reasons for sending them to a boarding school. But… For many of those who have had health problems in the past, it is extremely difficult to leave a medical institution and gain lost rights.

The director conceived his film as a phased instruction for those who want and have every right to return to normal life and leave the boundaries of a closed system that is interested in preserving its contingent. The protagonists of the “Instructions” succeeded in spite of and despite. And this gives hope to many desperate.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru