An intense look at the centre of Ukraine during war
UKRAINE: Part reportage documentary and part poetic road movie, Voyage Along the War shares what everyday life looks like in a war-torn country.
Chechnya
The unflinching eye
A mother’s life and passion: Anna Politkovskaya
RUSSIA: Anna Politkovskaya’s daughter: “My greatest wish is to experience Russia as a thriving, free and developed country, not desolate, poor and militarised.”
«… Who steals, rapes, plunders, tortures and kills»
FRANCE: After a number of «not a day without» statements, the French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s conclusion is that the country is about to be taken over by Muslims and feminists.
Voices of reason in a world of lies
It is not often in these trying times that a news headline brings a genuine smile to the heart. Friday’s
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.
The true face of Chechnya’s invisibles
CHECHNYA: A group of activists risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ programme raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
No nation without culture
CHECHNYA: The way Daymohk opens, one might think it‘s going to be a film that uncritically praises traditional Chechen folk culture and the Head of the Chechen Republic. But the film becomes more interesting once you get past the opening.