Birgit Gernböck
About
Gernböck is currently traveling the festival circuit with Darya Zhuk's feature film CRYSTAL SWAN, shot on location in Minsk, Belarus in collaboration with Vice Media and supported by the German Film Fund. The drama is the first submission from the former Soviet Republic nation since 1996, and follows a young female Belarusian hip-hop DJ in the mid-1990s who dreams of emigrating to join the American music scene.
Keep It Together
In 1976 civil-war-torn Beirut, a young rebellious woman fights to free her neighborhood from the control of the Holiday-Inn Sniper and to maintain her relationship with a woman bound by social norms.
Crystal Swan
In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater factory town where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.