- Produced by Open City Documentary Festival
- Price £8
- Get ready for the land between the living and the dead
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The war is long over but the kidnapping, torture and murder of individuals continue. Kvedaravicius, who spent three years shooting in Chechnya, focuses on the missing person case of Hamdan Mastaev.
In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes all become commonplace. When the disappeared do return in dreams, they are said to come from Barzakh – a land between the living and the dead.