PUSSY VS. PUTIN 2 World Premiere on the Lasipalatsi Square tomorrow 27th of August at 10 pm
This premiere/first cut of the second film by Gogol’s Wives presents a number of long episodes from the contemporary life and times of Pussy Riot, it’s leading figures Nadya Tolokinnikova and Masha Alyokhina and their circle from the very inside. It is the story of a protest that couldn’t be stopped even by imprisonment, but which turned the prison itself into a space of protest. It’s a movie about the shooting of the latest Pussy Riot clips “Like A Red Prison” and “Putin will teach you how to love the Motherland”, the only Russian political activism seen by the Sochi Olympic games – a showcase of Russian authoritarianism. It’s about the beginnings of the Zona Prava (Zone of Rights) NGO, which the two front-women of Pussy Riot founded after leaving prison and whose activity is devoted to a building organised resistance with the vast and unjust Russian system.
Pussy vs. Putin II is the second film by Gogol’s Wives on the topic, following their previous
Pussy vs. Putin, shot before the experience of incarceration of this (in)famous feminist punk band.
L SQUARE CINEMA: PUSSY VS. PUTIN II (world premiere) at 10.30 pm
TSQ2 DEBATE 10-10.30 pm: A panel with the director Taisya Krougovykh (via videolink) and guests including Grey Violet (queer activist from Moscow), Teemu Matinpuro (Finnish Peace Committee), Antti Rautiainen (anarchist activist), Teivo Teivainen (Professor of World Politics) and Ivor Stodolsky (curator, writer) and Anton Nikkilä (musician and researcher). Live on RADIO PRAVDA. https://www.re-aligned.net/radio-pravda/
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Saturday, 30th of August, 10pm ART WAR, directed by Marco Wilms.
TSQ2 DEBATE at 10 pm: The protagonists Ammar Abo Bakr, Ramy Essam and Ganzeer (via video link) discuss the film. Päivi Mattila (Finnish Human Rights League) and Iida Siimes (PEN) join for the debate. Live on RADIO PRAVDA. The film screening will start at 10.30 pm.
Sunday, 31st of August, 10pm. INDIGNADOS directed by Tony Gatlif
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