Synopsis
In a village in Chechnya a mother and a daughter speak about the return of an acquaintance.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Together with producers Ada and Alexandru Solomon, who have an even longer personal story with Nina, we embarked on this project of excavating the many layers of mythology and ideology that surround this unique, defiant figure in a country where before 1989 dissent was rare, where “Communist” became an unexamined dirty word in the first minutes of the Revolution, where Jewishness remains to this day a taboo subject, and “feminism” is a joke. We believe that Nina’s story teaches necessary lessons in a time when creative freedom is once again threatened by the rise of authoritarianism and extremism, surveillance returns as a tool for global repression and censorship, and the forces of nationalism bear down on more global, internationalist projects. (Mona Nicoară)
- Mona Nicoară, Dana Bunescu (Idea: Ada Solomon)
- Romania/USA
- 2018
- Doc.
- 89’
- Sub. PT/ENG
