Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Taskovski Films has acquired Kristina Shtubert’s “Adobe of Down,” which is set to have its international premiere in the Next:Wave competition section at the Copenhagen Intl.
Documentary Festival, also known as CPH:DOX. Over the course of nearly a decade, the documentary follows a religious community in the Siberian taiga.
Their leader, Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who now calls himself Vissarion, claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus.
Since the 1990s, his followers have been building a settlement, the Abode of Dawn, on a remote mountain. Vissarion himself stays at the edge of the narrative.
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