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Vladivostok Terminus

Where is the "eastern border" of Europe in Russia? What about “the Russian soul”, today, 100 years after what Dostoievski wrote about Europe?

Filmed in the train from Moscow to Vladivostok : 9282 km with the mythical trans-Siberian, and 12 cities and villages, we stop along the journey.
Film-investigation during this trip (40 days and 40 nights) in Russia, where I am confronted to more than one hundred people. What are the feelings of Russian, in 2018, regarding Europe, their borders and the European feelings?
With many events and many encounters, I am also the protagonist of this movie with my three partners, one French camerawoman and two Russian women for translation and sound recording.

  • Laurent Canches
    Director
    The unlikely Encounter (Balzac Rodin), Mo able, L'Hachouma (the shame), Phantom photographer, etc.
  • Canches
    Writer
    idem
  • Itinero Films Gerard David
    Producer
    Mo ble
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Terminus Vladivostok
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 32 minutes 1 second
  • Completion Date:
    July 28, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    75,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Russian Federation
  • Language:
    English, French, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    HD 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • south europe international film festival
    Valencia
    Spain
    October 24, 2020
    Best feature documentary film
Distribution Information
  • Itinero Films
    Country: France
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Laurent Canches

I was born in a books’ store close from Paris, France. After reading many novels, newspapers, I also studied sociology “on the field” of the cinema, because it was my first passion.

I decided to enter this industry, first as internship then as assistant on fiction feature length films.
In the 90s, I began to shoot documentary movies, with different partners (producers, television, institutions).
Recently, I directed two short-films (fiction) and in 2019, I just finish the editing of my first feature length documentary, “Terminus Vladivostok”.
A long journey in the trans-Siberian train to the end of the European continent. Looking for the feelings of Russians about Europe and borders…

In this adventure, as a paradoxical “flash back”, I presented some parts of this movie at the Paris Book Fair (march 2019), without to have written any books.

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Documentaries and fiction

MO BLé
2016 (short film fiction- 18 mn) with Ninon Brétécher, Marcel Mankita. Production ITINERO Films and crowdfunding. Festival of the francophone film in Vaux en Velin, january 2018

L’HACHOUMA (LA HONTE)
2014 - (short-film fiction 27 mn), co direction with Chad CHENOUGA). Production Bizibi – financial support CNC, France 2.
Broadcast on FRANCE 2 (09/ 2014, 01/2016)

L’IMPROBABLE RENCONTRE (BALZAC RODIN) The Unlikely Encounter
2010 - (59 mn, fiction/documentary), financial support of the CNC (2001), Etats Généraux du Documentaire de Lussas (2002)
Production Guns & Knives.
Braodcast : Telessonne,2010/12. Cinéma Le Panthéon (2011) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (2015), Cinematheque Tours (may 2018)

EN PREMIERE LIGNE
2006 - (documentary, 57 mn)
Co-production : AGAT Films & Cie, Telessonne, Sycomore films, CNC, General Council of Essonne, Ministry of Health, les Villes Cities of Evry, of Grigny, Foundation “Jeunesse Feu Vert”
Broadcast on Telessonne (2006 - april 2007)

UN DROLE DE ZOUAVE A L’ALMA (Phanyom Photographer)
2001 - (documentary – 55 mn) (co direction/Luc Verdier-Korbel).
Coproduction : Forum des Images and Rodin Museum
International Festival of the film on Art (UNESCO, 2001) - Festival : Ecrans Documentaires, Arcueil (2004)

JUSQU’AU DERNIER SALTIMBANQUE (Till the last street artist)
1999 - (51 mn, documentary)
Coproduction : Forum des Images and France 5 –
broadcast : FRANCE 5 (december 1999) –
Festival Traces de Vie, de Vic-le-Comte (novenber 1999)

L’ENDROIT DU DECOR
1993 - (documentary report in 4 parts - 4X26 mn)
Production/broadcast : Forum des Images, Paris

LE PONT-NEUF DES AMANTS
1991 - (53 mn, documentary)
Production : La Boite à Images with many Institutions
Broadcast : TV cable network (C9, Ciné-cinéma) 1991-1993,
International festival on the film of Art/Montréal (19995) and many others festivals.
Others
Director and co-interviewer / for an cd/dvd edition
Looking for Organization –
I shot in 1998/1999 series of interviews in the USA (Washington, Pittsburgh, Ithaca, New Haven, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston with scientists of amerciacn sociology and political science : Thomas Schelling, Herbert Simon, Jim March, Charles Perrow, Peter Drucker, William Foote White, etc. And Michel Crozier in France.