| Instructions for Survival | |
| Director: | Yana Ugrekhelidze |
| Producer: | Yana Ugrekhelidze |
| Music: | Lennart Saathoff |
| Cinematography: | Jule Katinka Cramer |
| Editing: | Agata Wozniak |
| Studio: | FEM Management for Film |
| Runtime: | 72 minutes |
| Country: | Germany |
| Language: | Georgian Russian English |
Instructions for Survival is a German documentary film, directed by Yana Ugrekhelidze and released in 2021.[1] The film is a portrait of Alexander, a trans man living in Georgia who must carefully navigate secrecy about his gender identity while he and his wife undertake efforts to migrate to a safer country.[2]
The film premiered in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival,[3] where it won the Jury Award from the Teddy Award program for LGBTQ-related films.[4] It was subsequently screened in the United States at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in April,[2] where it won the award for Best Documentary Film, and in Canada at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in May.[5]