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Un/Told


A Practical Online Documentary Playwriting Course
educator

USA, 2024

Co_tutors — Ekaterina Bondarenko, Elizaveta Spivakovskaya
Course of Documentary Playwriting. It took place from May to July 2024 under the guidance of Anastasia Patlay. The result was 9 new documentary plays written in Russian by authors from seven different countries: Georgia, Armenia, Israel, Latvia, Germany, Serbia, and Montenegro.


Photo: screenshots from the workshop
The plays, created at the course:  

Udmurt as a Native Language,
Lena Belyaeva:  
About the lost native language, as well as who is to blame and what (not) to do.

Into the Last Car, Alexandra Berenstein:  
About how the mothers of transgender people shelter and save their children from the clutches of the Russian army, government, and homophobic society.

Run Forrest Run, Anna Getman:  
About escape and desertion as a feat: refusing to kill people, associated with enormous risk of persecution.

My Red Nose, Ilya Domanov:  
About the work of medical clowns in the "Barzilai" hospital, located in Ashkelon, near the Gaza border.

The World Tried to Catch Me, but Did Not, Veronika Zhuravleva:  
What is the price of personal freedom in an unfree country, and how the genius contemporary Sergey Parajanov remains in the memory of others.

Bad Buryat Good, Karina Pronina:  
About why the myth of "Putin's fighting Buryats" appeared in Russia and how it is transforming now.

Open Relationships, Igor Sergeev:  
Doc-dramedy about the love of two emigrant guys in Munich.

The Timofeevs and Death, Andrey Timofeev:  
About several generations of a Latvian Russian family against the backdrop of great history.

It's Time to Leave, Polina Shipina:  
About the turning points of history that force a person to act.


Un/Told showed a keen interest in documentary theater, so next year the UnFilmed school plans to repeat this course.

PartnersUn/Filmed, USA