Macha Ovtchinnikova

Red Emma

Called in the middle of the night to attend a birth in a poor and large family, Emma Goldman, a feminist anarchist, strives to relieve the suffering of the woman in labor. Back at home, she finds herself confronted by her companion Ed, exhausted by her absences.

Red Emma

Called in the middle of the night to attend a birth in a poor and large family, Emma Goldman, a feminist anarchist, strives to relieve the suffering of the woman in labor. Back at home, she finds herself confronted by her companion Ed, exhausted by her absences.

My Russian 90

After leaving Russia in 2003, I return with my mother to Volgograd. Between an idealized childhood that I carry in my memories, and her painful reality of these harsh time we once lived together, we reminisce about the decade following the 1991 Moscow putsch.

The Scar of the Earth

Macha Ovtchinnikova, author of the film, follows the tracks of her great-great-aunt in Kyiv while her mother tells the story of the aunt’s death, revealing a dramatic episode of the Holocaust: “In my great-great-mother’s home, a little black-and-white picture represented deserted hill covered with dry grass. A little black cross traced on the photograph indicated the approximate place where her sister Esfir was buried with her family. Before the war, Esfir had a happy family, a husband, and three children. They lived in a Jewish neighborhood of Kyiv, close to the Babi Yar ravine.

Les variations

The mosaic of different fates reveals its pattern across time. Jeanne confesses the secrets of her shattered youth, of her life torn between madness and love, and her middle age flowing to the rhythm of her memories.