Dutch Premiere: Q&A with filmmaker Manon Loizeau and co-author Sasha Kulaeva

This programme has been organised in collaboration with One World Prague and People in Need.

Nadiia Ivanova will moderate and filmmaker Manon Loizeau and co-author Sasha Kulaeva will be present as guest speaker. 

Manon Loizeau is a Franco-British award-winning film director. Her films focus on making unheard voices heard in closed countries and forbidden lands. For 10 years, Manon lived in Moscow, where she worked for the BBC, Le Monde, Arte, and France TV.

She made films on human rights across Russia and worked in Chechnya for nearly twenty years, during which she directed many documentaries, among them «Chechnya, War without trace », which received numerous international awards (Best Film One WORLD, best film OMCT FIFDH).

She then fimed in Afghanistan, Iran (« Letters from Iran »), Syria (« Silent war ») Belarus, Burma, Yemen, Ukraine; Her films always focus on strong  human stories , they tell the untold stories of resistance to repression. She has been awarded the Prix Albert Londres, the equivalent of the French Pulitzer Prize, for « Missing women ». Her recent films include: «Life Ahead », the story of Elaha, a young Afghan girl on the road to Europe; «The Occupiers », about Russian war crimes in Ukraine; and her last film, « POLITZEK », co-directed with Ekaterina Mamontova, filmed secretly in Russia.

Sasha Koulaeva is an international expert on human rights and civil society, and a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and American University of Paris. She is a member of the Russian movement Memorial since 1990s – movement founded by Andrei Sakharov after the fall of the USSR and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. Having arrived in France in 2002, she joined the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), where for sixteen years she directed the Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk and carried out numerous field missions, documenting fundamental rights violations and developing protection strategies. Since 2019, she has worked independently as an analyst, lecturer, and trainer in French, English, and Russian for various universities, NGOs, international institutions, and media outlets.