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How a Cultural Appropriation Dispute Among ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Obsessed Artists Lead to a Celebration of the Many Indigenous Cultures of the Ex-Soviet Territories

In a wholesome display of Twitter de-escalation, Kazakh artists used the hashtag #AvatarSNG to shed light on the many cultures of CIS-countries and beyond

August 25th, 2020|Country: Azerbaijan, Bashkortostan, Belarus, Chuvashia, Crimean Karaites, Georgia, Hutsul People, Kalmykia, Kamchadals, Karelia, Kazakhstan, Komi, Kuban Cossacks, Kyrgyzstan, Mari El, Moldova, Mordovia, Nivkh People, Pontic Greeks, Roma, Russia, Sakha, Selkup People, Tatarstan, Tuva, Udmurtia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan|

Daughters of Mujahideen in ‘Before Father Gets Back’, dir. Mari Gulbiani, 2019

An intimate portrait of two girls in a Georgian village who come of age and learn about the beauty of cinema, while their fathers are in Syria fighting for mujahideen groups

December 4th, 2019|Country: France, Georgia, Germany|

Film: And Then We Danced, dir. Levan Akin, 2019

This necessary, exquisite story of a gay romance in a Georgian folk dance ensemble was nominated by Sweden as its Oscars 2020 entry, and opened to homophobic protest in Tbilisi

November 13th, 2019|Country: Georgia, Sweden|

Music: Smithsonian Folkways, Folk Music of the USSR, 1960

October 18th, 2018|Country: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bashkortostan, Belarus, Dagestan, Georgia, Karelia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, South Ossetia, Tajikistan, Tatarstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan|

Music: Ensemble Shavnabada, Georgian And Abkhazian Folk Songs Vol. 4, 2016

June 28th, 2018|Country: Abkhazia, Georgia|