When Will This Wind Stop
Feature-length documentary, 2017
The film tells four personal stories of one Crimean Tatar family. Their story concentrates, as in a lens, the extensive experience of people living under occupation. The difficulties, which affect this family, are experienced by the larger community and evolve extreme emotions. The main motive of the film is not the regime and the occupation itself, but its consequences, how it affects the lives of ordinary people who simply want to live, to love and to have a family.
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” The filmmaker exhibited courage and highly developed filmmaking skills through a strong visual language and a sensitive approach to the main characters. The story was told with determination, while leaving room for the film to breathe and to poetically create its own story. Despite the complex political context, the filmmaker succeeded in telling an intimate universal human story; a story of displacement, loss and trauma which affects three generations, all in their own respective ways.
The IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary goes to When Will This Wind Stop by Aniela Astrid Gabryel”.
