Films by Anastasia Vinokurova

Germany 2022, 52 min
by Anastasia Vinokurova

The film documents the first two weeks after the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine from the perspective of the Siberian dissident Egor Lesnoy and his family. They stand pars pro toto for millions of mostly young Russians who turn their backs on their country out of deep despair over this policy and the ignorance of many compatriots. A story that has hardly ever been told so intimately and so closely to the protagonists...

Germany 2018, 52 min
by Anastasia Vinokurova

Tbilisi, Georgia: the eleven-year-old orphan Barbare has found unusual parents. Together with 17 other children she lives in a Christian Orthodox monastery. They are cared for by monks and nuns in a loving and unconventional way, and all live together as one large family. But this summer everything will be different, because Father Johannes, the monastery's leader, whom everyone calls Papa, suddenly has a new plan…