Screening

About Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

Year Released:

2013

Genres:

Documentary

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Directed by Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin

Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond—three young artists or the society they live in? As members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, they performed a 40-second “punk prayer” inside Russia’s main cathedral. This performance led to their arrest on charges of religious hatred and culminated in a trial that has reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian society forever. (HD presentation)