Planning to shoot a »historical film«, Russian-born director Aleksey Lapin and his crew travel from Vienna to Yutanovka, a small village near the Ukrainian border where he used to stay with his relatives every summer. Amid the rural reality of local festivals, church attendance and daily routines, a cinematic interaction between the crew and the villagers begins. A casting is held and down by the river two protagonists muse about cinema and the process of filmmaking itself. The Russian word krai means edge or border. Shot in black and white, both timeless and timely, the film also blurs the border between fiction and documentary with subtle irony and a fond interest in the whimsical. From staged scenes and everyday observations emerges an image of reality that resists straightforward categorisation. And above it all stands one vision: »Cinema has to bring together different worlds and different people and, ultimately, remind us that we are all part of one humanity.« (lm)
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