Elena Rubashevskaja

Film Festivals, Mental Health Awareness Month

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Turning Pain into a Message: Films on Women and by Women at Beirut Film Festival

by Elena Rubashevskaja

May 29, 2025

Going to a festival is always an adventure, and as the very word “festival” suggests, it is a pleasant one. Yet a month prior to the Beirut International Women Film

Film Festivals, International Films

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Female Portraits in Kurdish Cinema: Surviving as a Shadow in the World of Men

by Elena Rubashevskaja

January 16, 2025

At the end of 2024, I got the chance to visit a destination that confused my insurance agent a lot: Iraqi Kurdistan, where I was invited as a juror for

essay, Film Festivals, International Films, personal essay, reviews

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Dhaka International Film Festival 2023: Female Characters in the Modern Bengali Cinema

by Elena Rubashevskaja

February 14, 2023

The festival year started for me in a most unexpected way, on January 14, 2023, I landed in Bangladesh, a place I’d never been before and would not have normally

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