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Name: Green Caravan Film Festival Screening: Babushkas of Chernobyl
Uploaded: 2015-09-10T16:43:41+01:00
Channel: Julianne Rooney
Description: Some 200 women defiantly cling to their ancestral homeland in Chernobyl’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone.” While most of their neighbours have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on — even, oddly, thriving — while trying to cultivate an existence on toxic earth.

Saturday 31 October 2015, 4:00 PM

Green Caravan Film Festival Screening: Babushkas of Chernobyl

Some 200 women defiantly cling to their ancestral homeland in Chernobyl’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone.” While most of their neighbours have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on — even, oddly, thriving — while trying to cultivate an existence on toxic earth.