CCA
5
Thursday 18th October
5.00pm-6.45pm
Three Comrades
Masja Novikova
Netherlands ï 2006 ï 99 mins
 Three
friends ñ Ruslan, Ramzan and Islam ñ cruise the streets of the
Chechen city of Grozny at the start of the 1990s with their
car radio up full blast. A few months later, Ruslan was arrested
and executed by Russian soldiers. Ramzan was next to die, killed
by an air strike.
The last of the three friends - Islam - only
survived the war as a result of being deported to Holland. Three
Comrades looks at the Russian- Chechen conflict from the point
of view of the Muslim inhabitants.
Based on interviews with
survivors and archive footage found in the estate of Ramzan,
who was a cameraman, the film creates a dazzling mosaic of intimate
confessions and candid thoughts, and provides an invaluable
insight into the lives of ordinary people in a war zone.
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Closing Party
CCA Cafe
Sunday 21st Oct 10.30pm
 Sheila
Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers,
and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire and has a style
of singing that is strong and passionate and distinctively her
own yet in the fi nest mainstream of the Scottish tradition.
Last in the Line is screened in CCA 4 earlier in the day 1.15pm-
2.00pm where Sheila will also read from her biography of her
mother (Belle Stewart) Queen Amang The Heather.
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