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My motherland is checkered

Partner: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

Directors:

My Motherland Is Checkered combines fiction, documentary footage, and 2D animation. The actresses’ monologues, drawn from letters by Russian women imprisoned for their anti-war stance, weaves personal and collective memory into a universal story of loss, resistance, and humanity.

Details

Duration: 13min.

Country: Germany

Language: Russian

Year: 2026

Genre: Animation, Documentary, Experimental

Topic: Activism, Animation, Biography, Crime, Crisis, Death, Delinquency, Discrimination, Exile, Experimental, Fear, Freedom, Homeland, Human Rights, Memories, Police, Politics, Prison, Resistance, Society, Struggle, Trauma, Violence, War, Women

Cast & Crew

Directors:

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

Writer: Polina Prokofeva

Cinematographer: Johannes Beese

Editor: Hanna Stuhlmann

Music: IC3PEAK, POLE

Actors: Irma Rerikh - Prisoner 1 , Mariia Amelenkova - Prisoner 2

Festivals & Awards

2026

Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Neisse Film Festival Neisse Film Festival Special Mention - Short Film Competition

Sony Future Filmmaker Awards

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