Russia
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The Nagorno-Karabakh cycle
Karabakh: A chronicle of the disputed history in the decades-old conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis
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Russia without Putin
RUSSIA: Putin will leave the Kremlin one day - but don't expect that to change things, argues Tony Wood in his well-researched thesis on power and continuity in today's Russia.
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Baltic Sea Docs announces selected projects for 2020
The 24th edition of the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries# has announced its #Baltic Sea Docs# 2020 participating projects. Occurring mostly online from 29 August to 6 September, the 24 selected projects represent 16 countries including #Armenia, #Estonia, #Finland, #Latvia, #Lithuania, #Poland, #Russia, #Ukraine, and others. This year’s event switches online from its usual home…
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The faces behind the flags
NATIONALISM: A 6-month documentation of Łódź right-wing National-Radical Camp activity.
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Dystopia ends when, Putin?
RUSSIA: Online video as a contemporary form of political expression and a plea against censorship in Russia.
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The steel city’s future departed
RUSSIA: Against the backdrop of gigantic rusty smokestacks, the day-to-day lives of Magnitogorsk seem pre-determined by one of the largest iron and steel factories in Russia.
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The beauty of abandoned places
PERSEVERANCE: The bleached white concrete bones of an abandoned Soviet-era nuclear reactor frame Alexandra Westmeier's poetic study of lives lived out in a post-apocalyptic era.
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Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
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Moneyed but mortal: Russia’s ‘90s «Wild West»
RUSSIA: Alex Gibney provides an intimate look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident.