Still from Corrections Class (2014)
Still from Corrections Class (2014)
Still from Corrections Class (2014)
Still from Corrections Class (2014)
The daring, doc-style critique of institutional failings Corrections Class won young Russian director Ivan Tverdovsky the East of the West prize at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year. Blended with a touch of magical realism, it portrays a class of students with physical or mental disabilities who turn their frustrations at being neglected from society inward against each other after their dynamic is disrupted by a budding romance. Tverdovsky had already confronted the cracks in the system with his short Snow, a raw and socially incisive depiction of a teacher with a drug-addicted daughter.