Aleksandra DALSBAEK
Александра ДАЛЬСБЕК
Aleksandra DALSBAEK
Russia / USA, 2018, 63mn 
documentary
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Россия – это мы

 

 We are Russia

 La Russie, c'est nous

 
Directed by : Aleksandra DALSBAEK (Александра ДАЛЬСБЕК)
Cinematography : Aleksandra DALSBAEK (Александра ДАЛЬСБЕК)
Produced by : Mariya YATSKOVA (Мария ЯЦКОВА)
 

Plot synopsis
Milena and Kolya grew up in the shadow of Vladimir Putin. Following Alexei Navalny, the main opponent to the Kremlin’s master, they get involved in political agitprop in Moscow, defying the repression of the regime. Camera in hand, Alexandra Dalsbaek followed these young militants up until the Presidential election of 2018.
https://online.visionsdureel.ch/
 

commentaries
We are Russia , visionsdureel.ch, 2020
 
Her gaze moving, a little concerned, Milena, aged around twenty, holds a poster declaring: “Sell your villas and build roads”. In front of the grilles of the imposing building that is home to the government of the Federation of Russia—then led by Dmitri Medvedev—her associate Kolya will barely have time to show his before the security service interrupts this agitprop. Also in front is the camera of Alexandra Dalsbaek, carried along with these very young militants who are trying—following Alexeï Navalny, the main opponent of the master of the Kremlin—to shake up the general apathy caused by the reign of Vladimir Putin. In Moscow, during the months preceding the Presidential election of 2018, the filmmaker chronicles their actions, their attempts to talk with their elders, but also the police and administrative repression that they suffer. We Are Russia uses direct cinema to give a face to this committed Russian youth, who intends, with joy and determination, to recreate a public space in a country terrorised by twenty years of authoritarianism.
https://online.visionsdureel.ch/

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- "Jeden Svët" International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World, Prague (Czech Republic), 2021
- Nyon International Documentary Film Festival "Visions du réel", Nyon (Switzerland), 2020

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