Ekaterina Stroganova

Mila Anufrieva was a style icon, a powerful businesswoman who wasn't afraid to take off her rose-colored glasses and look at the real world. The strange Russian with dark glasses is well known in Dakar and throughout Senegal, many even call her the “albino angel”. Every day she saves children from prostitution and slavery, from self-mutilation by order of local shamans. In African countries, there is a belief that the blood of albinos has healing powers. Albinos are hunted, mutilated, and body parts are sold in local markets as medicine.

The film-portrait will show the daily life of Lida Moniava, Development Director of the House with a Lighthouse Charitable Foundation. Every year, its activities change the lives of thousands of people. It was she who made the phrase “palliative care” understandable to everyone.

The film shows the whole background of the new reality that the world faced in the spring of 2020. Paradoxically, the most severe ordeal in the last 20 years has brought people together, while dividing them. Loneliness became a catalyst for internal changes for the six Russian-speaking characters of the film from different countries. Distanced from the usual life, for a month they filmed video diaries and learned to interact with the world in the new conditions of strict restrictions. Everything that is shown on the screen is pure improvisation, non-stop life, sincere feelings without censorship. The truthfulness of what is happening is emphasized by one of the most innovative technological formats — screenlife.

"Goryanki" documentary film tells the stories of several women from the North Caucasus. In Soviet times women in this region were actively removed from the context of traditional values, but the collapse of the USSR raised many questions for the society. The film examines the problems of feminism, the clash of national traditions and religion. Anyway the heroines of the film found the strength and courage to become successful and outstanding people.