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‘Imago’ Director Déni Oumar Pitsaev On Winning Two Prizes In Cannes: “I Didn’t Expect It At All”
'Imago' director Déni Oumar Pitsaev on winning two awards at Cannes: "I didn't expect it at all."
For Pitsaev, who lives in Brussels and Paris, dealing with the Pankissi property involves returning to a place of some painful memories, and reengaging with complicated family dynamics. When Déni was only a few months old, his mom left his dad, and mother and child moved to Kazakhstan, “defying Chechen tradition that dictates divorced women must leave their children behind,” as Pitsaev writes in a director’s statement. My mother’s gift of land in Pankissi felt like a bridge to that unreachable past, but it came with expectations: build a house, start a family, grow the clan.
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