STRONGWOMAN

SIŁACZKA

'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.

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 16
  • Year: 2013

Director: Iwona Kaliszewska, Kacper Czubak

Script: Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska

DOP: Kacper Czubak

Editing: Kacper Czubak, Joanna Wojtulewicz

Production company: Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Informa

About the directors:

Iwona Kaliszewska

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.

Kacper Czubak

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.

At festivals:

12th San Sebastian International Human Rights Film Festival, Spain, 2014 (competition)

14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

29th Montenegro Film Festival, Montenegro, 2015 (competition)

Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)

25th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2015 (screening)

14th St Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films Beginning, Russia, 2015 (competition)

22nd Film Festival della Lessinia, Italy, 2016 (competition)

19th International Film Festival ETNOFILM Cadca, Slovakia , 2016 (competition)