title: The Tree

status: Released

overview: North Causacus, 1994. Hava and Adam live next door and are friends like their parents. The children write letters to each other and pass them hiding them in a tree hollow. They love the tree and confide their secrets to it. They are dreamers living in their fantasy. Aslan, Adam's farther, runs business in town and comes back to the village one day. Sultan, Hava's farther, like many other of their neighbors, is happy for his success and celebrates his coming home. Unfortunately not all of the villagers share these feelings…

title: The Tree

title: Baum

title: Дерево

overview: Северный Кавказ, 1994.Хава и Адам живут по соседству, дружат с детства, как и их родители. Дети общаются друг с другом через письма, которые прячут в дупло дерева. Они очень любят это дерево и доверяют ему свои тайны. Они мечтатели, фантазеры. Аслан, отец Адама, бизнесмен, приезжает домой. Султан, отец Хавы, и многие другие соседи радуются его успехам в бизнесе. Но отнюдь не все …

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Screenplay

department: Writing

job: Production Design

department: Art

job: Sound Director

department: Sound

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

original_title: Дерево

original_language: ce

title: Derevo

country: RU


title: Slightly Opening The Door

type: Backdrop

overview: Story from the life of a young Chechen family, where the woman lives not “by the rules”.

title: Приоткрывая дверь

overview: История из жизни молодой чеченской семьи, в которой женщина живет не «по правилам».

title: Slightly Opening The Door

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Colorist

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Приоткрывая дверь

title: Priotkryvaya dver

title: Жимма Хъайиллана Наъ1 Йолш


title: The Chechen Family

type: Poster

overview: Abubakar is 46 years old and participates in the Zikr, a ritual dance performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims. In each Zikr, he reaches a state of ecstasy that serves as an exorcism, a form of liberation from all that his people have suffered during so many years of occupation.

title: La familia chechena

overview: Abubakar tiene 46 años y participa en la Zikr, una danza ritual que realizan los musulmanes sufíes chechenos. En cada Zikr, alcanza un estado de éxtasis que le sirve como exorcismo, una forma de liberación de todo lo que su gente ha sufrido durante tantos años de ocupación.

title: The Chechen Family

job: Writer

original_title: La familia chechena


title: Freedom

overview: Elder son Mikael lives with his family in a small Chechen foothill village. He has a love of art which he hopes to pursue, and a girl whom he wishes to marry. However, upon invasion by Russian forces for the second time, he must put those things aside and leave for the mountains to defend his homeland.

title: Freedom

title: Marsho

title: თავისუფლება

job: Special Effects

department: Crew

job: Cinematography

job: Costume Design

department: Costume & Make-Up

original_title: Marsho

title: Свобода


title: Time Is

Time is / trailer / 24th Ji.hlava IDFF

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: In a quiet and snowy Chechen village, mother tells her daughter about the return of Zara – their relative, who left this place 20 years ago. Outside, the whole world is hidden in a thick white fog. For both women, the upcoming meeting is a bright event in their dull daily life that they are very much looking forward to.

title: Time Is

title: Хан ю

overview: В тихой и заснеженной чеченской деревне мать рассказывает дочери о возвращении Зары, их родственницы, которая уехала отсюда 20 лет назад. За окнами весь мир заволокло густым белым туманом, и грядущий визит становится для женщин ожидаемым и светлым событием в их череде долгих монотонных дней.

title: Čas je

overview: Mrazivé prostředí vylidněné čečenské vesnice během tuhé zimy, proti němuž stojí teplo tradičního slovanského venkovského domova, jenž obývají matka s dcerou a jejich mourovatá kočka. Každodenní činnosti a jednoduché rituály, jako je vyšívání, sledování televize nebo louskání slunečnicových semínek, může narušit neočekávaný příjezd bývalé obyvatelky, která se po dlouhé době vrací do rodné vsi.

character: self

type: Cast

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Хан ю

title: Han yu


title: Tamerlan's Love

overview: Tamerlane, in order to gain independence and be able to marry his beloved Amina, leaves Grozny for the mountains to work as a shepherd.

title: Любовь Тамерлана

overview: Тамерлан, для того чтобы обрести самостоятельность и иметь возможность жениться на возлюбленной Амине, отправляется из Грозного в горы работать чабаном.

title: Tamerlan's Love

original_title: Любовь Тамерлана

title: Lyubov Tamerlana


title: The Cage is Looking for a Bird

name: THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD by Malika Musaeva - Clip

type: Clip

overview: In a small Chechen village, Yaha spends her days with Madina, with whom she is very close. Both girls dream of leaving their homes after graduation and escaping to the real world, far from their village. Yaha’s older sister Heda also dreams of being free, but the price for this is very high - if she decides to try for a divorce, her only son will be taken away from her, such are the traditions in her culture. Will Yaha, Madina and Heda succeed to get free, and at what cost?

title: The Cage is Looking for a Bird

title: 哪一天她們會飛

overview: 十七歲少女雅嘉渴望自由，愛在草地上滾動，不想一世困在車臣小村莊，想離家到城市闖闖。村裏仍有搶婚習俗，有些少女卻寧願被認識的男孩帶走，也不願接受盲婚啞嫁。雅嘉父親因戰爭離世，母親安排她嫁個有錢人，婚姻不如意的姊姊一邊怕妹妹行差踏錯，一邊又怕她重蹈自己覆轍。蘇古諾夫愛徒穆薩耶娃出生於車臣，首部長片關注家鄉女性命運的自主與不由自主，是自投羅網，還是逃出鳥籠？車臣邊境村落取景拍攝，全由村民擔綱演出。入選柏林影展賞遇單元。

title: Клетка ищет птицу

overview: 17-летняя Яха живет в чеченской деревне и любит бродить по полям со своей подругой Мадиной. Она открыта для жизни и знает, чего хочет, но ее способность делать собственный выбор ограничена.

title: A Gaiola Procura por um Pássaro

overview: Em um pequeno vilarejo na Chechênia, três jovens mulheres sonham em viver a vida da maneira que escolherem. Yaha e Madina são melhores amigas e, conforme se aproxima a data do casamento arranjado de Yaha, elas planejam fugir de casa e escapar para o mundo real, bem longe dali. Ao mesmo tempo, a irmã mais velha de Yaha, Heda, deseja pedir o divórcio, porém teme que o único filho seja tirado dela, assim como mandam as tradições locais.

character: Yakha

character: Madina

character: Heda

character: Maret

character: Ibragim

character: Lyoma

character: Zama

character: Mohmad

character: Madina's mother

character: Khasan

job: Makeup Artist

job: Co-Producer

job: Assistant Director

job: Production Manager

job: Sound

job: Casting

original_title: Клетка ищет птицу

title: Kletka ishet ptitsu

production_countries: FR RU


title: 14 Episodes

overview: Images of horror from Chechnya. Destroyed houses, people fleeing, mutilated bodies, dead children. The 14 episodes, which assemble footage from the first and second Chechen wars, do not seek to explain or comment. They record the war in its raw violence—and they do not allow the viewer to look away. Some of the footage was shot by Tarak Protsuk, a Ukrainian journalist who was killed in Baghdad in April 2003. Nine minutes, fourteen stories: shocking documents from a ravaged country.

title: 14 Episodes

job: Director

original_title: 14 Episodes