- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 70:55'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Kirsten Gainet
written by Kirsten Gainet, Natalia Blok
produced by Kirsten Gainet
DoP Timur Mingazirov
music by Vladislav Savvateev
sound by Vladislav Savvateev
editor Kirsten Gainet
production company: «Ak kosh» Documentary Film Studio
In 2014, after Crimea was annexed into the Russian Federation, the country authorities began a genocide against the peninsula’s indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars. Many men were arrested and convicted in trumped-up terrorism cases. Women whose husbands and sons were imprisoned fight for justice, and their children have to become adults ahead of time. Grief unites the entire nation, but every year the authorities arrest more and more Crimean Tatars.
- MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival (2022, Portugal, Viana do Castelo)
- Festival Internacional de Cine de los Derechos Humanos “El septimo ojo es tuyo” (2022, Bolivia, Sucre)
- International Festival Signs of the Night, Edward Snowden Award (2022, France, Paris)
- Turkish World Documentary Film Festival (2022, Turkey, İstanbul)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Artdokfest/Online" (2023, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
Today's documentary filmmaking is a powerful tool for realizing one's ideas, as well as express one's attitudes toward various situations. I make films dedicated to human rights. I’ve chosen a difficult story for the film. I had been preparing for it for a long time, evaluating all the difficulties and problems I might have to face. The film is about the tragedy of the Crimean Tatar people that touched my characters. This injustice is more than 100 years old. The characters in my film constantly struggle for the right to live on their land. I decided to choose three different characters of different ages, all united by the same tragedy. Through the story of the older generation, I want to talk about the repression that began in 1938 and that continues to this day. The youngest character, Sayid, who was 13 at the time of filming, takes over the older generation’s struggle and suffering.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Kirsten Gainet is a director, screenwriter, and producer of the Аҡ Kosh documentary film studio. Member of the Filmmakers' Union of the Russian Federation and the Guild of Non-fiction Filmmakers. She was born on 12.09.1989 in Inzer village, Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia). In 2015 she graduated from St.Petersburg State University of Film and Television (faculty of photography arts) and St.Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (faculty of cinema/photography arts). She is a photo editor, laureate and participant of Russian photo contests and exhibitions. More than that, Kirsten Gainet is the participant and award winner of prestigious international and Russian film festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "Tomorrow comes yesterday", documentary
2022 - "Performance", documentary
2019 - "Wife", documentary
2018 - "The Sorrow of Our House", documentary
2017 - "7 maidens’ theatre", documentary
2015 - "Live, soldier, live", documentary / debut
