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Essay: Doomed to Run | Slate

Essay: Doomed to Run

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Essay: Doomed to Run

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Deeply personal cinematic journey between two worlds—Catholic Venice and Islamic Dagestan. Inspired by Joseph Brodsky’s essay *Watermark* and Merab Mamardashvili’s lectures on those “doomed to run,” I craft a film-essay about identity, the ache of existing between cultures, and the endless search for home. Through fragments of daily life and raw, intimate phone calls with my mother, I try to make sense of living on the border—between faiths, eras, wars, and pandemics.

Genres: Documentary
Country: Russia
Language: Russian

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Gadzhimurad EfendievDirector

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Roman Cherpakself
Shura Alkhasovaself
Petr Shevchenkoself

Elena Shevchenkoself
Gadzhimurad Efendievself
Leyla Efendievaself

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