Masha Gessen

Desde 2016, el tiránico líder de Chechenia, Ramzan Kadyrov, ha sido el artífice de una operación centrada en la "limpieza de sangre" de los chechenos pertenecientes al colectivo LGBTQ+, supervisando una campaña gubernamental destinada a detener, torturar y ejecutar a sus miembros. Sin ayuda del Kremlin y con una mínima repercusión global que ignora la violencia que sufre el colectivo, una vasta y secreta red de activistas decide aplicar sus propias medidas a modo de resistencia.

Pussy Riot: The Movement embarks on the odyssey of the girls who rocked a country and continue to fight for human rights throughout the world. Documentary follows Masha Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich through their harsh two year sentences for playing music to their freedom. What started as a punk rock collective has catapulted to a world movement for human rights.

This documentary film is about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist and playwright. In 1980, age 21, Svetlana left the USSR for the US, unable to pursue studies at the Leningrad university because of the Jewish quota. After graduate studies at Boston University and Harvard, she became the Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. A brilliant writer of ambitious scope and great imagination, combining personal memoir with philosophical essay and historical analysis, she explored motifs of exile, nostalgia, the diasporic imagination and different forms of freedom in Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and many others, in a total of six books, with two more about to appear.