Emancipe

Credits

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Dana Baklanova

Director
10/03/1996

Biography

Graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 2018. TV journalist. Graduated from the Petersburg School of New Cinema in 2019. Workshop of Edgar Bartenev and Alexander Savchuk. Director of fiction and documentary films.

Directors Statement

I wanted to create a fairy tale that would explore women’s characters and relationships between mothers and daughters. What is matriarchy and what is lack of freedom in any social group? Are there gender-specific differences when it comes to power? How damaging a tight relationship between mother and daughter is? I’ve answered these questions in the genre of magical realism, which allows the viewer to “play” with reality of the film, try all the behavior models on, and decide, who to sympathize with and who to consider the head. I can tell from the experience of my own family, and many others I know: we haven’t yet learned how to control all-engulfing love of a mother, so a reminder of that is valuable. I wrote the script inspired by a film by Rustam Khamdamov – “Bottomless bag”. Dreamed of making a women’s film, stylized as Russian folklore tale. Sadly, I had a shoestring budget (my own salary of a copywriter and my grandparents’ investment). Then my love for eclectic won over, and I “confined” the heroes in an apartment.