29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Birth of a Nation

Daya Cahen / Netherlands / 2010 / Czech Premiere / 11 min.


synopsis

FilmWOMAN-HOMELAND presents, on parallel images on one screen, life at a Moscow girls’ cadet school. The film, which experiments with multiple messages, offers a suggestive view of life at a military boarding school where girls as young as eleven learn to cook, sing, and shoot weapons. It also holds a mirror up to contemporary Russia, in which the army offers a sense of connection with the myth of a heroic past.

more about film

director: Daya Cahen
script: Daya Cahen
photography: Daya Cahen
editing: Daya Cahen
sound: Daya Cahen

contact

Marta Jurkiewicz
Distribution Experimental Film (International Festivals)
020 - 7582351 (direct)
020 - 683 3401 (fax)
martajurkiewicz@eyefilm.nl
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Vondelpark 3 1071 AA Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2011
section:Short Joy
format:DigiBeta PAL
language:Russian
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Daya Cahen
original title:Birth of a Nation
country:Netherlands
year:2010
running time:11 min.

Section


Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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