Out of Competition
North American Premiere

14 EPISODES




Murad Mazaev

Country of production: Ukraine, Netherlands
Year: 2004
Language: No dialogue
Mins: 8:37

Production company: Kaukasus TV Foundation
Producer: Islam Bashirov, Murad Mazaev
Editing: Murad Mazaev

Source: Kaukasus TV Foundation
844 , 3000 AV Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31641971640
Fax: +31181659255
e-mail: info@kaukasus


14 EPISODES consists of shocking images from the first and second Russian-Chechen wars. For nearly nine minutes we see people fleeing, bombings, and countless wounded and dead. The film, winner of the Amnesty International Prize at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, bears testimony to the scale and seriousness of this extraordinarily savage war. The footage used came from Ukrainian journalist Tarak Protsuk, who was killed in Baghdad on April 8, 2003, as well as from editor Islam Saidayev, and the materials of Adam Tepsurkayev, who was killed in Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya by so-called 'death squads' for his active and truthful coverage of the events in the Chechen-Russian war.

Murad Mazaev was born in 1977 in Grozny, Chechen Republic of Ichkerya. In 1999 he graduated from Chechen State University, philosophical faculty. In 2003 he graduated from Georgia State University of Theatre and Cinema.

Filmography

14 episodes (2004)
Cinema & Mountain (2004)
Freedom (2003)

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2005 AT 7.45 PM. / BLOCK CINEMA
SCREENING WITH FIGHTING FOR LIFE IN THE DEATH-BELT
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2005 AT 1.00 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
SCREENING WITH FIGHTING FOR LIFE IN THE DEATH-BELT