‘Man Follows the Sun’

Russian, 1961, 71 mins, English subtitles
A boy follows the sun to go around ‘the world’.

The film follows a little boy through the megacity (Chișinău) on his pursuit to get the sun, because, as another boy tells him that going straight he will be able to get the sun, walk around the globe, and return to the place of his departure but from a different side. The world of adults and the spaces they inhabit are viewed from a child’s perspective

(Curated by Gary Vanisian of Frankfurt Film Collective)

Director : Mikhail Kalik 

Writer : Valeriu Gagiu, Mikhail Kalik
Music : Mikael Tariverdiev
Cinematography : Vadim Derbenyov
Editor : Ksenia Blinova, Nikolay Chaika
Cast : Nika Krimnus
Production company : Moldova-Film