2008 Festival of Human Rights Berlin, Germany 2008 Festival of Liberties Brussels, Belgium (Special Prize of the Jury) 2008 Verzio Documentary Film Festival Budapest, Hungary (Verzio 5 Audience Award)
Issue about
Women and History、Women and Politics、Women and War、Biography and Life History
Keyword
Association
Year
2009
Theme
16th 2009 WMWFF-Women Move On No Border, No Nation
This film is about Anna POLITKOVSKAYA, who had spent seven years on the frontline and put herself in danger so often. We see the same images she saw and meet the same people she met, people who she always thought about. In order to understand Anna’s work and duties, character, fears and feelings of loneliness, we meet three women that stood by her during hard times.
Galina MUSALIYEVA, a colleague of Anna who had shared a room with her in the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta. She tells us about two other journalists from the same office who were murdered before Anna. Lidia YUSUPOVA, a lawyer from Grozny, has spent many years searching for the lost people in Chechnya. In 2003 she received a Martin Ennals prize in Geneva for her bravery. She used to work with Anna and her own life is at constant risk as well. Svetlana GANNUSHKINA has also worked with Anna. She helps a lot of fugitives and emigrants from the former Soviet Union republics. They are called “blacks” by racists in Russia and the new fascists have threatened Svetlana with death.
Title：Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline
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