Surviving Earth + Thea Gajic Q&A
15 126 mins
15 126 mins
Join filmmaker and curator Tomisin Adepeju for a preview of Thea Gajic’s mature and moving debut feature.
Based on a true story, Surviving Earth follows Vlad, a Yugoslav refugee and gifted musician who fled to the UK in the 90s. Now rebuilding his life in Bristol, he longs to be the father his daughter Maria deserves, but the shadows of his past refuse to fade.
When he forms a band to reconnect with his roots, music becomes his lifeline - a fragile bridge between who he was and who he wants to be. But as difficulties arise, old habits begin to resurface and Vlad risks losing it all. Can he find redemption through love and music, or will the past drag him down once more?
There will be a post screening discussion with Director, Thea Gajic and her regular collaborator, cinematographer, Olan Collardy.
Their conversation will explore their long, creative working relationship, it will also interrogate the film’s complex exploration of fractured relationships and strained familial ties, of friendship, ambition and surviving an earth plagued with insurmountable challenges.