PHOENIX KATJA

12 min. 2023 color and b&w language: Russian, w/English st format: 16:9, HD location: Narva, Estonia music: Lucy Railton camera and montage: Eléonore de Montesquiou link (please ask for password: nagrane@gmail.com) “I am a phoenix bird. It's hard for me take off and fall ”writes Katja. A kindergarten teacher in Narva, on the Estonian border with Russia, Katja was born in 1992 in a Russian speaking environment. Today she is trapped between languages that reflect oppositions about war and freedom.