Sisters from Siberia
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When:
| Fri 11 Jun ’10, 7:00pm–8:30pm |
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| Sat 12 Jun ’10, 7:00pm–8:30pm |
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Where: The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Te Aro, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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Sisters from Siberia [NZ Documentary]
(NZ, 2009, Exempt, 115 mins)
Wellington City Councillor Stephanie Cook made headlines when she revealed that as a single woman she was planning to adopt two girls from a children's home in Siberia. Now, four years later, the story of the adoption and the experience of her two new daughters, Katya and Nadya, in a strange land is told in a new documentary by award-winning film maker Russell Campbell.
Katya is nine and Nadya four when they arrive to start a new life in the suburb of Aro Valley, Wellington. Over the next two and a half years we watch as the girls face the challenge of coping in a foreign environment, learning a new language and bonding in a family unit with their adoptive solo mum. As they do so we encounter other members of Wellington's colourful Russian community.
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