Directing
On the eve of Russia's war against Ukraine, a Russian journalist from a pro-Kremlin TV channel brings her rebellious and Westernized teenage daughter on a journey through Putin’s Russia to make her more "Russian".
Tatjana is lonely. Born in Croatia, she has lived across Europe before settling in Amsterdam. Fifteen years later, her teenage son avoids bringing friends home, embarrassed by her dreadful Slavic accent and her lack of Dutch composure. But the real trouble is bigger: Tatjana feels foreign everywhere. Determined to belong, she starts knocking on doors across Europe, asking relatives and friends how they did it. Stumbling through cultural misfires and everyday bias, she finally confronts a dark pattern in her own family history.
A mercilessly humorous portrait of the filmmaker who, in a desperate attempt to save her relationship, visits all her ex-boyfriends.
The film analyses all the things imposed on women by the media. It presents the framework within which women are supposed to act and accept it as their own – the stereotypes imposed via women's magazines and, primarily, through fashion and advertising industries. It deals with illusions presented to us by media as reality and it peeps behind the scenes. It is a film about women as shown and presented by the media. It was created in cooperation with the women's association B.a.B.e.
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In Amsterdam, a single mother loses her little bed & breakfast due to the COVID pandemic and longs for the sense of togetherness she lost. She ventures through her displaced friends and migrant communities to find that elusive feeling of belongin
