Death in Peace

In the organizer's words:

While anti-government protests roamed the streets of Tbilisi in spring 2024, the video opera "Death in Peace" was created there. In Ayla Pierrot Arendt's production, embedded in the stirring soundscape of composer duo Nika Pasuri and Ani Zakareishvili, the protagonists of three different nationalities meet on four screens: two Georgians, two Germans and a Russian in exile in Georgia. Equipped with their respective ideas of peace and freedom, friend and foe, which cannot be separated from their political biographies, they meet in the story of the Georgian Natia and the Russian deserter Andrej. It is not long before Andrei is dead, accidentally shot in the German embassy in Tbilisi, of all places, by the ambassador's husband. His death raises many questions: about the price of freedom, the limits of diplomacy, about the voids and myths of collective identity and about loyalties - underpinned by a spreading fear in an insecure Europe full of conflict.

A stirring composition of essential questions about physical threats, territorial borders, the threat of war and the longing for peace. - MADE.jury

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Solidary price system (freely selectable): 8 € / 12 € / 21 € / 36 €