Patric Chiha
Simples Soldats - Film - 1h30min - 2023
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 25
Film
Simple Soldiers is a documentary about Russian men who fled their country to avoid conscription and having to go and fight in Ukraine.
In Istanbul, between a past that seems lost forever and a future that is more than uncertain, they try to rebuild their lives.
Patric Chiha
Biography Patric Chiha is an Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, born in Vienna (Austria) in 1975. After studying fashion design at ESAA Duperré (Paris) and editing at INSAS (Brussels), he directed several short and medium-length films and documentaries (including *Les Messieurs *and Home), which were shown at numerous festivals. His first feature film, Domaine (2009), starring Béatrice Dalle, was selected 56 for the Venice Film Festival. This was followed by Boys Like Us (2014) and the documentaries Brothers of the Night (2016) and Si c'était de l'amour (2019), both of which were selected at the Berlinale. The Beast in the Jungle (2023), which also premiered at the Berlinale, is his fifth feature film.
