From the East

• D'Est
• Documentary
• Belgium, France, Portugal
• 1993
• Director: Chantal Akerman
• 115 min
• 16mm
• Original Version
• with Natalia Chakhovskaia

D’Est retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make shortly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc “before it was too late,” reconstructing her impressions in the manner of a documentary on the border of fiction.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..