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See You in Chechnya

69 min
Georgia
Right to human dignity Human rights The citizen and the state

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Government officials Employees of penitentiary system Teachers Journalists Activists / NGOs

See You in Chechnya

For Alex, as for the rest of Georgia, the war in Chechnya felt very far away, something they only saw on Russian TV. But in fact it was just over the mountains. He’d never imagined going there, but he did. He followed the French photographer who he had met a few days before at the fashion show. The war experience that Alex comes back with doesn’t leave him in peace. Something calls him back again. He wants to become a warphotographer but nobody knows him, nobody wants him. Alex meets many war reporters and some of them become close friends. He stays connected to the war through the stories of his friends that he follows for years. For 15 years he observes what war does to them.

Director

Alexander Kvatashidze

Alexander Kvatashidze graduated as a sculptor from Nikoladze Art College in 1996. In 2001 he obtained a BA degree in Arts and Humanities at Tbilisi State University. In 2006 he finished the graduate course at the film department of California State University in San Jose. Since then he has worked as a cameraman and/or editor, and also directs and produces films.

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At the film club meeting, we discussed the film See You in Chechnya. While emphasising the events of the Chechnya wars, the film itself focuses on the issues of the role and fate of military reporters. Through the eyes of the protagonist who was a photo reporter during the Second War in Chechnya, we see how these events affected the lives of many reporters. During the discussion, everyone expressed their thoughts and emotions about the film, the ideas and questions raised by it. The film’s central narrative was the defined idea of military reporters’ fight for truth, the impact of this fight on the person’s philosophical and existential views.

 

 

Vitaliy,
student, visitor of the Docudays UA Human Rights film club
See You in Chechnya eng: scenario_fragment