FROM THE EAST
COPYRIGHT: 1993
DIRECTOR: Chantal AKERMAN
FORMAT: 16 mm colour
DIFFUSION: 16mm or BETA SP
DURATION: 110 minutes
TYPE: Documentary
VERSIONS: International (no sub-titles or voice over)
PRODUCTION: ARTE, ARTE, RTBF, RTP, Paradise Films, Lieurac Productions
PARTICIPATION: Eurimages Favi, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Centre Bruxellois de l'Audiovisuel, Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique

Chantal Akerman took a journey through Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland and the Ukraine) filming everything that moved her: faces, streets, cars, buses, interiors, queues, doors , windows, meals, men and women, young and old passing by or stopping, sitting or standing. Days and nights, rain, snow, wind, winter and spring, Chantal Akerman filmed all this "while there is still time".

Prize for the Best Research Documentary at the Festival dei Popoli 1993