-
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No, i'm not worried,
they predict a fine weather.
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And it's said that
the weather changes quite fast here.
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Great, i'm surprised,
it's pretty big.
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There is even a piano!
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It's cool.
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I don't know yet.
I'm gonna walk-around.
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And there is the festival
which will take up quite a bit of time.
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And maybe take a look
at the Hermitage.
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- Hello?!
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- Excuse me?
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- Please!
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- Hello?
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International Short-Film Festival
At St. Petersbourg
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(french dialogues)
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- What did you see
at the openning night?
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- Mostly Femis' films.
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- Hello, please?
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- Please! 'ouhou'
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- I didn't watch saturday's projection.
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- Is the Festival there?
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- Hello!
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- Hello!
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- Please
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- Hello!
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- You can see me?
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"Thank you"
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- Do you speak english?
- Oh, yes!
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- So, i can see you,
you can see me
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What are you doing here?
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- I was in Paris,
because I'm french,
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and I came here for a film festival
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and, I've vanished!
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- You have vanished? Why?
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- I don't really understand.
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- Come with me.
- Yeah?
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I've vanished the 7 of march.
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I started to be transparent
during february.
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- Do you understand me?
- Yeah. But what happened?
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I remember, I was afraid.
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I couldn't do anything.
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People were in the street,
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they were screaming
because of this.
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The authorities didn't do anything.
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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We were just vanishing,
disapearing, like this!
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- The policeman, the government,
they didn't do anything?
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- No, no!
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- It's here!
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- It's the place I was talking about
-
for the film festival.
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That's just there.
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- So, you are an actor?
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- Yes.
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A transparent actor.
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- Do you want to go out
with me tonight?
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- Yeah! Sure.
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- I know a good bar.
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- Great!
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- Where are you staying?
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- In a hotel near 'Nevski Prospect'.
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- I can give you a lift if you want.
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- Ok great!
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- Clément?
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- I don't understand,
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how can we see each other,
if people can't?
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- Maybe they don't want to see us.
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- Why?
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- Because they are afraid.
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- How is it possible
-
that people don't see me
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when, me, I feel fire
burning somewhere inside
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How is it possible
-
when me, I feel like a hole,
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a darkness going in each part
of my body.
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How is it possible
-
when me,
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the only thing that I see
-
is that I exist
-
and
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I can see you
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and I can feel you
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and I can feel the pain that
they don't want to see us.
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- I have to go now.
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- Soon, you will be in Paris
-
existing again.
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You will see you in a mirror,
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you will be able to speak to people,
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people could hear you.
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Tell them.
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Tell them that here, we vanish.
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- "Spasibo".
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This film was inspired by censoreship of "Between bodies",
a short-film by Anaïs Sartini,
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at the Parisian Seasons' Festival
in Saint Petersbourg.
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The film censored introduces
gay people in Paris.
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"Spasibo" was made in a hurry
in reaction to the homophobic law
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which was adopted in Saint Petersbourg the 7 of march,
and came into force the 17 of march 2012.
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The law prohibits "the propaganda
of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors."
