Vluchtval premiere at IFFR

Laura Stek’s documentary Vluchtval (Flightfall) premiered at the prestigious International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR) on Friday 27 January.

In her film, Laura juxtaposes the lives and experiences of 90-year-old poet Jana Beranová , who was only a teenager when she left Czechoslovakia for Rotterdam, and Abdallah Marega, a 27-year-old freerunner who has lived in both Mali and Paris. They have both experienced a free fall in their life, and are still coping with their landing. But where one finds resilience in words, the other uses movement to recover.

Jelena worked as a script coach and choreographer on the film – safeguarding that the movement was executed and filmed in a way that ideally suited this documentary.