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After receiving the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER is finally out. The film tells the story of Nadia, Masha and Katia of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot. In Feb. 2012, they performed a 40-second “punk prayer” inside Russia’s main cathedral, which led to their arrest on charges of religious hatred, followed by a trial that reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian society.
Directed and produced by Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin the film looks at the real people behind the colorful balaclavas. As the opening quote by poet Vladimir Mayakovsky goes “Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it”.
Check out the long version trailer and watch the film on HBO and the Human Rights Watch Film Fest in New York (17, 18 June).
