the Transylvania International Film Festival, Best Director Prize at the Athens International Film Festival and a nomination for the Fassbinder Award. It was included in official programs of more than 50 international film festivals including Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Los Angeles Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. 4 was distributed in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, and also Scandinavian and South Asian countries. DAU project DAU is a multidisciplinary project at the intersection of cinema, art and anthropology that premiered in Paris in 2019. DAU was initially conceived as a full length feature film about the life of a genius in troubled times loosely based on the biography of the Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau (nicknamed Dau). However the filming process transformed into a ‘total performance’ and ‘total installation’ rather than a conventional film shoot. In 2008 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the largest shooting location in Europe spanning 12,000m2, named the Institute, was constructed as part of the project. How the location functioned and was used in the filming has suggested parallels between DAU and such projects as Synecdoche, New York and The Truman Show. The auditions for DAU involved 392,000 non-actors. Around 200-300 non-actors lived on-set at any one time and around 400 were filmed including scientists, musicians, artists, composers, religious leaders and philosophers, as well as waitresses, cleaners, secret police officers, cooks and hairdressers. 40,000 costume units were produced and purchased during shooting. The architecture, costumes, objects and food created a phantasmagorical reconstruction of the Soviet era of the 1930s to 1960s. The unscripted process was filmed intermittently from October 2009 to November 2011 during which no modern clothes including underwear, no modern sanitary products or any other modern objects or vocabulary were allowed on the set and period costume, make-up and hairstyles were required from everyone including the crew, regardless if shooting was occurring. With no script or takes, the characters acted and reacted in the meticulously designed circumstances, sometimes staying on set for months. The process resulted in 700 hours of 35mm film. 13 films of various genres edited from this material were part of the premiere in Paris in 2019. The ‘mother film’ that focused on Dau’s life story with the Institute being just one of the storylines yet to be released. The genre of the project is defined by critics as