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“What if your love becomes illegal?”
A cinema verite peek at expose of the rising homophobic climate inside Russia as seen through the eyes of two young Russian lesbian activists, Olya and her girlfriend Galiya, who struggle to balance their passion for LGBTQ rights with their personal dream of having a baby together. Russian filmmaker Kirill Sakharnov’s documentary is a current look inside the Russian queer community.
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RU

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.