A lost generation of young Russians arrives in a shelter in Tbilisi: a women’s rights activist, a young journalist couple, a Navalny supporter, a political blogger. Forced to leave their homeland by Putin’s war and repression, they live as digital dissidents in search of a new home.
DOM is about a lost generation of young Russians. Arriving from places all over Russia, they now live in an improvised private shelter in Tbilisi in Georgia: a women’s rights activist, a young journalist couple, a Navalny supporter, a political blogger. They are ordinary citizens who had never considered emigration. They do not belong to the famous avant-garde of resistance but are still committed to an open and democratic civil society. Since Putin started the war more than half a million Russians are said to have left Russia. They are threatened not by tanks or missiles, but by the regime's ever-increasing repression, which hits any criticism of the war and any form of civic activism. Forced to leave their homeland by Putin’s war, they live as digital dissidents searching for a new home.
Written & directed by SVETLANA RODINA and LAURENT STOOP
Director of Photography LAURENT STOOP
Editors SVETLANA RODINA and ORSOLA VALENTI
Music MARCEL VAID
Producers CORINNA DÄSTNER und DODO HUNZIKER
A DOKLAB production in coproduction with Swiss Radio and Television (SRG)
funded by Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Cinéforom, Film Funding Bern, Swiss Broadcasting Company (SRG) and Suissimage.