Liberation: The User's Guide

Liberation: The User's Guide

Yulia and Katia are inmates held in a Siberian mental facility against their wishes.

2016 · 78 min · ★ 6.8 · Documentary

A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no freedom, no work, and no family. The path to reconquer these rights, in the face of fearsome Russian institutional bureaucracy, is long and difficult. At times, someone succeeds, but the new freedom is then a leap into the unknown.

Directed by Alexander Kuznetsov · Written by Alexander Kuznetsov

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