Grozny Blues

Best Documentary Film 2016 - Nominated

Grozny Blues

by Nicola Bellucci

The story of four women friends who fight for human rights in Chechnya under the most difficult conditions. The film accompanies the women in their everyday lives, telling of their fears and dreams, of love stories, of forced marriages and of the effects of the government’s repression felt on a day-to-day basis. By coupling the personal and intimate with the political, the filmmaker illustrates what it means to live as an independent and involved woman in an Islamic society.

Screenplay
Nicola Bellucci, Lucia Sgueglia

Production
Soap Factory GmbH Basel, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Zürich

Crew
cinematography: Simon Guy Fässler, Nicola Bellucci, Olga Kravets, Géraldine Zosso | editing: Anja Bombelli, Chiara Ronchini, Alkmini Boura, Sophie Brunner | locationsoundmix: Nicola Bellucci | soundediting: Pedro Haldemann | sounddesign: Pedro Haldemann, Olivier JeanRichard | music: Blues Brothers Cafe Band

Festivals

39th Göteborg International Film Festival
27th Trieste Film Festival
51. Solothurner Filmtage
9th Iran International Documentary Film Festival "Cinema Verité" Tehran
28th IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
58. DOK Leipzig - Internationales Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
3rd CinéDOC - Tbilisi 2015, 20th Busan International Film Festival
68° Festival del film Locarno
12th Yerevan International Film Festival Golden Apricot
21e Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon