CROSSROADS Documentary trailer

Documentary (62 min) Valery Liashkevich is a homeless artist who lives at a railway station and for over twenty years has painted pictures in the streets of the town of Gomel in Belarus. For the natives he is no more than a local attraction. For art critics he is a phenomenon worth close attention. The filmmakers set out to show that this eccentric artist and philosopher has many important truths to tell us about the meaning of life, that his work and attitude to the world make deep sense. Two large exhibitions of his works, one of them at the National Art Museum in Minsk, were a huge success and garnered the interest of art critics. The documentary was made with private money to support this extremely talented artist. CROSSROADS is debut by Anastasiya Miroshnichenko and it was created without any financial support. The film “Crossroads“ was conceived as a charity project to help the homeless artist Valery Liashkevich. Our main goal was to give a hand to a man who had encountered troubles. Till now we’ve archived a lot with the help of the film. We have already organized 2 personal exhibitions of the artist’s artworks. One of which has been held in the National Art Museum of Belarus, which means a very high level. We have also created a personal bank account for the artist. We’ve been selling Valery’s artworks for more than a year. Many people were eager to help Valery financially after watching the film. By now we have quite enough money to buy a modest house for him around Homel. Valery is looking for the most appropriate variant now. We believe that before autumn he will have the roof above his head, as we call it. SPECIAL MENTION JURY AWARD WARSAW IFF Poland, 2014 AUDIENCE AWARD WARSAW IFF Poland, 2014 BEST DEBUT ODFF RUSSIA Russia, 2014 AUDIENCE AWARD ODFF RUSSIA Russia, 2014 SPECIAL MENTION JURY AWARD IFF RADIANT ANGEL Russia, 2014 BEST NATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM MIFF LISTAPAD Belarus, 2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION IFFEST Romania, 2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION IFF CROSSING EUROPE Austria, 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION IDFF CRONOGRAF Moldova, 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION IDFF MILLENIUM Belgium, 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION IDFF VERZIO HUMAN RIGTS Hungary, 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION IFF PRIX EUROPE Germany, 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION IDFF OFF CINEMA Poland, 2015 The film itself was taken under the wing of Malcolm Dikselius - a producer from Sweden. His company «Dixit International» is presenting the ‘Crossroads’ at several international film festivals and TV channels. Malcolm is convinced that the fate of Valery Lyashkevich will touch the hearts of people anywhere in the world. Director - Anastasiya Miroshnichenko Script - Anastasiya Miroshnichenko, Elena Antonishina Director of Photography - Alexander Moroz Music by - Alexei Vorsoba Sound - Svetlana Sokol Edit - VarfalameyKuraga Producer - Malcolm Dixelius(Dixit International, Sweden Production - Anastasiya Miroshnichenko, Belarus June 2014