BUT THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE LEAVES

The film is based on documentation of dreams of "Alternativa Teen Lab" in Bishkek participants. A dream is like it's about you, but not entirely. That's why talking about dreams isn't as scary as talking about yourself. It's not so scary to share your strangest, most intimate dreams with each other, to show them to strangers. But, in reality, there is so much of us in these dreams. What we fear; our culture; our hopes and experiences. Talking to each other, creating images for these dreams allowed us to become very close. We realized that inside each of us lives an entire universe. We would like to invite viewers to touch it, so that this film resembles a poem or a dream itself, where a completely different, unfamiliar logic operates compared to ordinary life. "Alternativa Teen Lab" helps teenagers talk about complex and pressing issues through cinematography.