BBC Documentary Escaping My Family (When I Escaped)

Award wining Women's Voice Now - Best creative feature documentary


Every year dozens of young women make a risky choice to escape their family homes in the North Caucasus in Russia. This film follows three cases of women forced into early marriages or simply into living the life they didn't want to live. Refusal to comply is punished by physical or psychological violence, restriction of freedom or worse. As the women attempt to escape, they must cut ties with everything they know.

Director: Zlata Onufrieva
DoP: Max Hertz Lomakin
Camera: Dmitry Kuvaldin , Marek Polaszewski , Vladimir Pirozhkov
Animation: Denis Korolev