Venice Days: Official Selection for Angelin Preljocaj and Valerie Muller’s POLINA

Venice Days: Official Selection for Angelin Preljocaj and Valerie Muller’s POLINA
Venice Film Festival’s independent strand Venice Days has unveiled the line-up for its 13th edition.
POLINA will premiere next September as the festival runs from Aug 31-Sept 10.
The ballet-themed portrait will mark the feature debut of famed choreographer Angelin Preljocaj
POLINA is the adaptation of Bastien Vives’ popular French comicbook.
The movie toplines Nastya Shevtzoda, a russian dancer alongside Niels Schneider, Jeremie Belingard and Juliette Binoche.

Moscow, early 90s. Polina, aged 8, is a gifted ballerina. From a modest background she joins the prestigious school of Professor Bojinsky, who trains dancers for the Bolshoi. He immediately grasps her tremendous potential and makes her work so hard that at only 18 her dream finally comes true and she enters the prestigious Bolshoi. This is when she meets Adrien, a charming French dancer. He will help her to discover not only love but, more importantly, a new form of dance, more contemporary and expressive, a kind of dance that will change her life forever. From Moscow to Aix-En-Provence and Antwerp, from success to disillusion, we follow Polina’s incredible destiny.