Rob Rombout

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199952 minDocumentary

Perm-mission

In Perm, an isolated city in the snowbound Urals, a festival named after Robert Flaherty, Flahertiana, brings together some forty Russian directors to take stock of documentary cinema. The debates are heated, at minus twenty-five degrees, and between the interviews their own films answer back. Rob Rombout is the only foreign filmmaker at this “international” festival. He is on a special Perm-mission.

Press

“A telling probe into a little-known reality, Rob Rombout’s film also makes you want to discover films one senses are both engaging and well made.”

« Coup de sonde intéressant sur une réalité mal connue, le film de Rob Rombout donne aussi envie de découvrir des films qu’on pressent à la fois attachants et de qualité. »

René Begon, Le Matin, 1999 · Our translation.
  1. 1999Au cœur du documentaire russeRené Begon, Le Matin · PDF ↗

Photographs

A group of men, one in a bow tie, posing arm in arm in a crowded room
1998Perm, Flahertiana festival
Two men embracing in the open air, a third man in a cap holding a film camera beside them
1998Perm, Flahertiana festival
Men seated around a long table in a hall with a large ornamental emblem on the wall, a cameraman filming at the back
1998Perm, Flahertiana festival
Close portrait of a young woman with a dark red bob and red lipstick
1998Perm
A young woman with a microphone stands by a window, facing a television camera on a tripod
1998Perm
Close portrait of a smiling man in a fur hat, frosted branches behind
1998Perm
A cameraman behind a video camera on a tripod in deep snow, a man in a fur hat talking and gesturing
1998Perm
Close portrait of a smiling man in a dark fur-lined hood against a blue sky
1998Perm
Two men and a woman in winter clothes side by side on a snowy plain, a video camera on a tripod at the left
1998Perm

Technical sheet

Title
Perm-mission
Year
1999
Runtime
52 min
Countries
Belgium
Languages
Russian, French
Production
Nota Bene, with Good & Bad News and RTBF
Availability
On request
Direction
Rob Rombout
Script
Rob Rombout, Pascal Perez
Image and sound
Pascal Perez
Editing
Rachel Lamisse

Prizes

  1. 2000Prize, Flahertiana, Perm