39 minutes that'll wreck your assumptions about who gets to call a place home.
About Russians living in Fergana, why they are not going to leave and what they see as the meaning of their presence on the land of Turkestan
Direction
Patient observation without forced narrative.
Production
Rare access to a hidden Russian community.
Director
Oleg Karpov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fergana Valley was a Soviet 'melting pot' that curdled; this film catches the last Russian holdouts before the 2010 ethnic violence scattered more communities.
Umida Akhmedova, Uzbek co-director, was later tried for 'defamation' over her photography — this collaboration itself was politically charged.
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