Coca, la colombe de Tchétchénie
Coca, The Dove from Chechnya
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Martin Witz, Jens-Peter Rövekamp, Luc Yersin
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ISAN : ISAN 0000-0000-D9DC-0000-V-0000-0000-I
Suisse | 2005 | 86 minutes
Un film de Éric Bergkraut
Ce documentaire trace le portrait d'une ancienne femme d'affaires tchéthène, Zainap Gashaeva, surnommée Coca, qui a consacré les dix dernières années à dénoncer l'oppression et le massacre du peuple tchétchène par le gouvernement russe.
Her parents called Zainap Gashaeva "Coca" - the dove. Born in exile in Kasakhstan, she became a business woman and reared four children. Zainap has been documenting what have become daily events since 1994: abduction, torture, murders. What has been declared an "anti-terrorist operation" by President Putin has taken on features of genocide. Up to thirty percent of the Chechen population may have been killed. The world is looking away; be it out of ignorance, helplessness or opportunism. Together with other women, Zainap has been hiding hundreds of videotapes. She is now bringing these tapes to Western Europe to serve as evidence so that the guilty - on whichever side - are punished. Is she tilting at windmills?
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Distinctions
- 2006 : Festival International du Film des Droits de l'Homme (FIFDH) - Paris (France) - Sélection
- 2005 : Tribeca Film Festival - Tribeca (États-Unis) - Sélection
- 2005 : Visions du Réel - Nyon (Suisse) - Sélection