Saturday, October 19, 2024

11 AM – 12 PM

Admission is free

This documentary film tells the little-known story of the Crimean Tatars. It features interviews with Crimean residents, Crimean activists, survivors of the 1944 deportation, and historians. Among the many interviewed include Russian nationalist Sergey Aksyonov, who is now the Putin-backed prime minister of the peninsula, and Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people.

For more than 200 years, the Crimean Tatars struggled to reclaim their native land from Russian control. The film recounts the rich and often tragic history of Crimeans, from ancient times to today. It is a story of betrayal, courage and, above all, hope. For despite all that they have faced, the Crimean Tatars remain undaunted in their peaceful resistance for freedom.

Christina M. Paschyn is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, multimedia journalist, and academic based in Doha, Qatar. She is an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar.

Paschyn wrote, shot, and directed the acclaimed documentary “A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars,” which played in several prestigious film festivals and institutions, including the European Parliament in Brussels and the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. The film also won multiple awards including Best International Film at the DC Independent Film Festival and was purchased for broadcast by Al Jazeera and Axess TV.

Paschyn has reported for top international news outlets, and her writing and video work has been published by The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Al-Fanar Media, and Euronews, among other outlets.