Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is screening They Also Had Their Own Dreams—a documentary film by Alexander Fedorov and Elena Srapyan about women who live in the Dagestani mountains, followed by a discussion on the dissimilarity of women’s experience in Russia.
How does ethnicity affect the life of women in Russia? When talking about Russian women, what kind of women do we imagine? What is the difference between the experience of a woman from the Dagestani mountains and that of a female citizen of Central Russia? And what kind of difficulties do women with migrant experience have to deal with?
The film will be followed by a discussion in the auditorium based around these issues, featuring representatives of various ethnic groups living in modern-day Russia. Among other things, the speakers will discuss what makes up the specificity of the experience of different women in Russia—and how to make this experience visible.
