2020 /  

WINNER

WOMEN OF THE GULAG

Director & Producer: Marianna Yarovskaya,

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The film Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of the women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin. The Gulag was first captured by Solzhenitsyn in his opus, Gulag Archipelago. Never before the stories of women and women’s experience in these camp was told in an international documentary film. A collection of unique and candid interviews with women who survived the Stalin’s repression of the 1930s.

12-year-old Tatheer embarks on a week-long Police boot camp for girls from a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Far from home, deep in the woods, she navigates grueling rituals, elusive social dynamics, and personal setbacks to find her place in this tender and revealing coming-of-age story.

2018 |  

39 min

USA

Languages: Russian | Italian | Spanish | French | Korean | Croatian | Ukrainian | Kazakh

AWARD:

Best Director (Doc Short)

Type:

Doc Short

Themes:

Women, Conflict & Resolution, Human Rights