Founded by filmmaker Irena Bilic, Europe by Europe is an art and auteur cinema festival with a European reach.
The festival aims to strengthen the European audiovisual professional network, promote European culture through cinema in all its diversity, and reflect on its identity and uniqueness.
The 20th edition of the festival will take place from April 15 to 29, 2025, in Paris.
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Les 7 Parnassiens
98 Bd du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris
By Aleksandr Sokourov
Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill wander in purgatory, awaiting the hypothetical opening of the gates of paradise. They appear in several versions of themselves, sometimes aware of their death, sometimes mulling over their plans for conquest and grandeur, exchanging invectives. The three dictators parade before their people, represented as tormented waves of indistinct figures. Churchill sees the gates of paradise open, for him alone.
