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Credits

Director   Svetlana Belorussova

Project Type   Feature, Student

Runtime   19 minutes 10 seconds

Country of Origin   Russian Federation

Sinopsis

Dasha, a young biologist, prepares to defend her Ph.D. on the Baikal seal. Her Ph.D. advisor is skeptical about Dasha’s love for animals, and her mother only cares about the girl not missing night prayers. A story about a conflict between science and religion, love and suffering, between what Dasha wants and what others push her to do.

Through his eyes of empathy, we not only see the daily and mental struggles of our healthcare workers, but also the undying spirit, unity, compassion, and never-ending resilience of New Yorkers, NY Tough, our Heroes”

Director Biography

RSvetlana Belorussova — anthropologist, filmmaker. For about ten years she has been conducting ethnographic expeditions among the peoples of Russia and Kazakhstan – Chukchi, Nenets, Khanty, Tatars, Kryashen, Nagaibaks, Kazakhs.
In 2017, she defended PhD thesis “Dynamics of the Ethnicity of Nagaibaks in the 18th – 21st сenturies”.
Since 2018 — researcher at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera), associate professor of the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg).
Since 2019, she is a student at the St. Petersburg School of New Cinema (Laboratory of Documentary and Feature Films).