Anastasia Trofimova | |
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Alma mater | University of Toronto (B.A.) University of Amsterdam (M.A.) |
Occupation(s) | Film director, producer and cinematographer |
Anastasia Temerkhanovna Trofimova ( ‹See Tfd› Russian : Анастасия Темерхановна Трофимова, born February 17, 1987) is a Russian-Canadian documentary director, producer and cinematographer, most known for her work in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with films like "Russians at War", "Her War: Women vs. ISIS", "Victims of ISIS", "The Road to Raqqa", "Congo, My Precious" and others. [1] Most of her films were made for the Russian state-controlled RT Documentary channel. [2] [3]
Fluent in English, Russian and intermediate Arabic, Trofimova earned her Bachelor's degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technology from the University of Toronto and her Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. [4]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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2015 | Victims of ISIS | Yes | Yes | No | Feature documentary on the Yazidis captured by ISIS and Abu Shuja, a former smuggler, who is using his network to steal them back. |
Her War: Women Vs. ISIS | Yes | Yes | No | Feature documentary following new recruits in the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) who are fighting ISIS in Syria. | |
2017 | Congo, My Precious | Yes | Yes | No | Feature documentary film illustrating how nature's bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse. |
The Road to Raqqa | Yes | Yes | No | Documentary featuring stories from the three last stops on the road to the besieged ISIS capital of Raqqa: the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) compound, the medical point and the foreign volunteers base. | |
2018 | Iraqi Safe House | Yes | Yes | No | Feature documentary dealing with Iraq's orphan crisis and the trials of Hicham al-Dhahabi, a Baghdad man who founded the "Iraqi Safe House for Creativity", Iraq's first private orphanage. |
Champions of the Spirit | Yes | Yes | No | Short documentary profiling the surviving members of the first Soviet Olympic Team (1952), which included Siege of Leningrad survivors, concentration camp prisoners and frontline soldiers. | |
Mosul Between War and Peace | Yes | Yes | No | Short documentary examining attempts at coexistence and peace-building between people who fought ISIS and those who supported them in Mosul, Iraq. | |
2019 | Rivers of Discord: Iraq's Water Crisis | Yes | Yes | No | Short documentary about the possible solutions to Iraq's lack of clean water. |
Sons of the Graveyard | Yes | Yes | No | Short documentary about the hereditary undertakers of Wadi Al-Salam in Najaf, Iraq, the world's largest cemetery. | |
2020 | Enslaved | Yes | Yes | No | Short documentary about "Alternative", the only NGO in Russia rescuing people from modern slavery. |
2021 | Mila's Angels | Yes | Yes | No | Documentary about style icon Mila Anufrieva, an influential businesswoman who was not afraid to take off her rose-colored glasses and look at the real world. |
2024 | Russians at War | Yes | Yes | Yes | Feature documentary film, with unprecedented access, following a Russian Army battalion in Ukraine. |
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