Online magazine 7x7 together with the Civil Act project of Swedish photographers made four documentary mini-stories about a young psychiatrist, a beatboxer who had overcome a serious illn…

Online magazine 7x7 together with the Civil Act project of Swedish photographers made four documentary mini-stories about a young psychiatrist, a beatboxer who had overcome a serious illness, a young woman from a small town with many hobbies, and LGBT activists in the North. The latest series is called I Live in Russia, And I'm Not Afraid. It has five three-minute episodes and two main characters: Vyacheslav Slyusarev and Nina Popugaeva. The serialВ tells about the difficulties they face living in the Northern city of Russia.В 

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Filmmaker Irina Leontieva has directed the mini-stories about Syktyvkar LGBT activists. At the presentation, she said that she had taken up the project because she had never shot a documentary serial. Initially, she wanted to shoot stories of local dancers, but then she learned about the local LGBT community, the participants of which were detained at actions, insulted, and beaten.

— We are relatively aware of how young people live somewhere in Moscow-St. Petersburg, in big cities. Because these active young people who come to rallies get a lot of publicity most often. And I don’t know, what people in Petrozavodsk do, — character of the serial Nina Popugaeva told 7x7.

All four mini-stories are unrelated, but the main characters of themВ are young people who have a fear of the future. One viewer notedВ that the finale was optimistic in every serial. The director of episodes about Syktyvkar activists explained that this was her inner feeling:

— The feeling that it is necessary to make the positive finale was based on my communication with them. They are like that themselves, so it seems that in the future everything will be fine.

A young woman from the audience answered the question, what kind of future the youth wants:

— I think that if I say what kind of future I want, then I can be imprisoned in today’s Russia. I want a future where they can't imprison me for that.

The serials will be shown in the towns where the other main characters of the mini-stories live. The premiere in Kirov is on December 12, in Yoshkar-Ola — on December 16, in Petrozavodsk — on December 21.

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