Instructions for Survival

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]

Instructions for Survival
Directed by	Yana Ugrekhelidze
Written by	Yana Ugrekhelidze
Produced by	Yana Ugrekhelidze
Cinematography	Jule Katinka Cramer
Edited by	Agata Wozniak
Music by	Lennart Saathoff
Production company	FEM Management for Film
Release date	13 June 2021 (2021-06-13) (Berlin)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Georgian Russian English

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]