After the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation in 2014, another wave of political repression began against the Crimean Tatars, the indigenous population of this peninsula. As a result, many people were separated from their families and loved ones, who were arrested and convicted on false charges of terrorism. Tomorrow Comes Yesterday centres on three women who survive the arrest of their husbands and sons but continue to fight for their rights. The main tool in their struggle for justice is the unity of the people and their prayers.
Tomorrow Comes Yesterday
Kirsten Gainet
Russia. 2022. 67 min
In Russian with English subtitles
The screening will be followed by an online discussion with film director Kirsten Gainet and PhD Politics Candidate Mariia Shynkarenko.
Part of the proceeds from the ticket sales will go to the film director, who supports the Crimean Tatar community.
Pushkin House would like to thank Russian decolonial researcher Sasha Shestakova for their help in organising this event.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kirsten Gainet is a director, screenwriter, photo editor and producer of the Аҡ ҡosh documentary film studio. She was born in 1989 in Inzer village, Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia). In 2015 she graduated from St Petersburg State University of Film and Television (Faculty of Photography Arts) and St Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (Faculty of Cinema/Photography Arts). Kirsten Gainet is a participant and award winner of international and Russian film festivals.
Mariia (Masha) Shynkarenko is a PhD Candidate in the Politics Department at The New School. Her dissertation explores the instrumentalization of collective identities as tactics of resistance in the Crimean Tatars’ movement for self-determination. Masha is currently a Fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies program "Transregional Dialogues: Rethinking the Past, Reimagining the Future". She is also a holder of the ASEEES Internship Grant and a member of Hromada group that offers resources to the academic community to understand Russia's war in Ukraine. In the past, she was a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, NYU, and the University of Toronto. She writes extensively for the Public Seminar and her article “Compliant Subjects? How the Crimean Tatars Resist Russian Occupation” was recently published in the Communist and Post-communist Studies journal.