“The Dove from Chechnya” wins human rights award
February 13th, 2007 by Zsofia
Swiss director Eric Bergkraut’s documentary “Coca: la Colombe de Tchétchénie” was given the prestigious International Human Rights Movie Award last night at the 6th Cinema for Peace Festival in Berlin. The film tells the story of a Chechen militant woman, Sainap Gaschaiewa.
The film has already screened at over 20 international festivals, including Tribeca, Amsterdam, Montreal, Tallinn, Tehran, Warsaw and Prague. The French newspaper Télérama has described it as a “militant documentary with a rare intensity [which] denounces the unsupportable inertia of European democracies”. Currently on release in Germany and France.
