My Perestroika

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Robin Hessman’s intimate and lovingly crafted documentary about the last generation of Soviet children brought up behind the Iron Curtain opens theatrically in New York on March 23rd. Since premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, MY PERESTROIKA has screened at some of the world’s top documentary festivals, including Full Frame, where it won the Filmmaker Award, Silverdocs, where it won the Special Jury Award, and the prestigious New Directors/New Films, a collaboration between the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.

"INTIMATE and LOVELY. Follows five classmates who came of age right before the Iron Curtain fell – the children of a vanished world. Charting the ways that time, memory, and a rapidly changing society have affected their lives, it’s PLAYFUL, INSIGHTFUL, HYPNOTIC, AND, ULTIMATELY, SUPERB.” – Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine

When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, MY PERESTOIKA tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country. Engaging, funny, and positively inspiring, in MY PERESTROIKA politics is personal, honesty overshadows ideology, and history progresses one day, one life at a time.

"PROFOUNDLY INSIGHTFUL and overall STUPENDOUS. One of the year's best documentaries." – Stewart Nusbaumer, The Huffington Post

"ENGROSSING!" – David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle

"Remarkably candid.... full of surprises!" – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times