Film Screening: “Give me Liberty” by Kirill Mikhanovsky

American-Russian Vic drives a van transporting disabled passengers around Milwaukee. He needs this job and today he’s running dangerously late. Tracy, an African-American woman with ALS, is not impressed. But there’s also Vic’s eccentric Russian grandfather’s neighbours, who all need a lift to a funeral, plus a livewire dude called Dima, who claims to be the deceased’s nephew and is coming along for the ride. From these chaotic beginnings, the film zooms through a day and a night, creating a turbulent tapestry of working-class lives that touches on issues of race, disability and poverty in America’s most segregated city. The pacing may be frenetic and the comedy uproarious, but most thrilling of all is the film’s invigorating sense of how communities can be forged.

Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky
Producers: Alice Austen, Val Abel, Wally S Hall, Michael Manasseri, Kirill Mikhanovsky, George Rush, Sergey Shtern
Cast: Chris Galust, Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer, Maksim Stoyanov

With partial English subtitles (some scenes are not in the English language)

Screening:
Friday 11 October 2019 18.00, Vue West End, Screen 7
Sunday 13 October 2019 19.45, BFI Southbank, NFT3