Grozny Blues screening | London |Curzon Soho |28 January

If you are in London, you can see GROZNY BLUES by Nicola Bellucci here:

Thursday 28 January 6.20pm. Curzon Soho

Grozny Blues follows a handful of people around Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya, where daily life is defined by political repression, constricting customs, forced Islamification and the failure to come to terms with past and recent history.

The film revolves around four women who have been fighting for human rights under worsening conditions for many years but get more and more disillusioned with the situation in Putin’s Russia. The building where they work is also home to a Blues Club that is frequented by a group of young people. Having only vague memories of the Chechen wars in the 1990s, they try to make sense of the strange things that are happening in their country.

In linking the personal and intimate to the political, Nicola Bellucci shows in a dramatic and yet very poetic way what it means to live in a divided society that navigates a no-man’s land between war and peace, repression and freedom, archaic traditions and modern life.

This DocDays screening will be followed by a discussion with a panel including:

Chris Bellamy – War Correspondent during 1990-91 Gulf crisis, 1991- 1996 Bosnia crisis and civil war, 1994 Rwanda aftermath of genocide and 1995’s Chechnya operation.

Oliver Bullough – award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster who has written about the former Soviet Union for a decade and a half.

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