Strongwoman / Siłaczka (2013)

SHORT FILM – Screened with the film THE SELFISH GIANT

Poland. Direction: Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska. Production: Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich, Studio Munka, inForma. Screenplay: Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska. Photography: Kacper Czubak. Edition: Joanna Wojtulewicz, Kacper Czubak, Iwona Kaliszewska. Running time:17 min

LANGUAGE: Russian / SUBTITLES: Spanish, English

Jamilat comes from a village in the Dagestan mountains. In this patriarchal, male chauvinist world, she decides not to toe the line. It just may be that she will be helped by her past as a wrestling champion in the Soviet era.