Transnistra

With headstrong films such as Pine Ridge, Epifanía and Lida, Anna Eborn has stepped forth as one of our time’s most interesting Swedish documentary filmmakers. Now she’s traveled to Transnistria – an unrecognized breakaway republic that has its own currency, army, and a flag donned with a hammer and sickle. In this country undergoing an identity crisis, 16-year-old Tanya hangs out with her friends. In intimate and poetic images, Eborn portrays how the Transnistrian youths socialize, make out, and fall hopelessly in love. (Göteborg Film Festival)