8 Views of Lake Biwa

Drama · 2024

"8 views" is an eastern art tradition where one place (primarily the area around Lake Biwa in Japan) is described through eight motifs, among which are scarlet, snow, sailboats returning home in the evening, rain, autumn moon, temple bell, gust of wind, flight of forest geese. These motifs frame eight intertwining tragic love stories, the setting of which are modern Russian fishing villages of old believers on the border of Estonian-Russian settlements and cultures by Lake Peipsi. The spiritualization of everything living and inanimate from Japanese animism, the eroticism of shunga and the humble language of prayer merge into a spiritual and magical world of a small community, where one still believes that one is connected with everything.

Starring

Tommi Korpela, Kristina Lõuk, Mark Lwoff, Tiina Tauraite, Jan Uuspõld, Misha Jaari, Marko Raat, Elina Masing, Liina Tennosaar, Marko Raat

Director

Marko Raat