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Anyone in Texas planning to see this documentary? Anyone know if there are plans to distribute it more widely?

Babushkas a documentary by a Rice student about Russian grandmothers living in Kazakhstan.

The movie tells the stories of five elderly women, barely able to pay their food, utility and medical bills….
Early in the process, Chennisi and Hook thought they were making a movie about health care and food distribution. But everything changed when they interviewed the babushkas last summer. That’s when the two young women realized that the stories about love, loss and the fight to survive are universal, and that the documentary wasn’t about differences between older women in Kazakhstan and the United States but the similarities.
“The things the babushkas talked about — love, he asked me to the movies, fear of dying, fear of being alone — that’s what every human goes through,” Chennisi says. “The women wanted to tell their stories. They wanted to be heard.”