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STRONGWOMAN

POLISH TITLE: SIŁACZKA

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'Strongwomen' is a documentary about the everyday life of Jamilat, a women in her 50s from the North Caucasus. She lives in a small mountainous village of Tindi in Daghestan. In the patriarchal world around her she is struggling to assume a non-conformist attitude. Her experience, dating back to Soviet times when she has been a wrestling champion, turns out helpful.

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
 

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
16'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska
SCRIPT:
Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska
DOP:
Kacper Czubak
EDITOR:
Kacper Czubak, Joanna Wojtulewicz
PRODUCTION:
Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Informa

Kacper Czubak »

Born in 1980. He is a cinematographer and film director. A graduate of the Radio and Television Faculty at Silesia University in Katowice. A holder of the scholarship of the Faculty of Film and TV at the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. As a cinematographer he has made several documentaries in Africa and Asia. He also shoots short feature films. He has worked on Dorota Kędzierzawska’s full‑length feature films ("Time to Die", "Tomorrow Will Be Better") as an assistant director. The film "Hermits" is his directing debut.

Iwona Kaliszewska »

Assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Univeristy of Warsaw, co-author of the book "Matrioshka in hijab. Essays on Chechenya and Dagestan", editor of the Kaukaz.net website, author of essays for The New Eastern Europe journal.
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