MATRIOSKAS - LAS NIÑAS DE LA GUERRA

MATRYOSHKAS - THE GIRLS OF WAR

By Helena BENGOETXEA

SINCRO - PRODUCCION DE IMAGEN - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2021


Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2022
Film Library (not in selection)
Festival Derechos Humanos de Donostia 2022
Oficial
Muestra de Cine de Mujeres de Pampona 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary, Female director
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, RUSSIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 74 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Helena BENGOETXEA
    • Writer(s)
    • Helena BENGOETXEA
    • Producer(s)
    • David BERRAONDO (SINCRO Producción), Isabelle NEUVIALLE (PYRAMIDE PRODUCTION), Ruben MARCILLA (HARRURU FILMAK)
    • Synopsis
    • Five nonagenar women, apparently common, hide five extraordinary lives marked by uprooting and exile: from Spain to Russia and then to Cuba. There still reside some of those "girls", while others finally returned to Spain after more than thirty years on the Caribbean island. Their memories of hunger, cold and fear of war are mixed with nostalgia for a home that welcomed them and no longer exists, the remoteness of a territory they barely know and, for some, the return to a country that is not the one they dreamed about.