Strongwoman
A portrait of a fascinating woman in a mountain village in Dagestan who adopted a non-conformist attitude in a patriarchal world. She is helped in this by her experiences from the Soviet period, when she was a wrestling champion. Through her, we see the everyday life and customs of a conservative society whose strict social rules are based on Islam. And although this is not conducive to meeting the needs of women, she says what she wants and dances when she hears music.
Agata Bratek
Kacper Czubak
Born in 1980. Camera operator and director. A graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty University of Silesia in Katowice. Won a scholarship from the Department of Film and Television at Prague’s Film and TV School. As a camera operator, has worked on dozens of documentary films in Africa and Asia. Worked as an assistant director on films by Dorota Kędzierzawska.
Filmography
2010 Pustelnicy (doc., short)
2014 Siłaczka / Strongwoman (co-dir., doc., short)
Iwona Kaliszewska
Anthropologist, lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Warsaw University, works at 'Nowa Europa Wschodnia', editor of www.kaukaz.net. One of the authors of the book Matryoshka in a Hijab: Reports From Dagestan and Chechnya.
Filmography
2014 Siłaczka / Strongwoman (co-dir., doc., short)