Active Vocabulary
PROPAGANDA: A Russian teacher flees to Berlin after questioning the war. Her story exposes ritualised school propaganda, then throws an uncomfortable mirror at Western «neutrality» and the new glamour of military service.
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A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
RUSSIA: Identity politics form the foundation of former high-flying Russian public television correspondent Zhanna Agalakova’s debut documentary.
Henden – Requiem for a Photographer
PHOTOGRAPHY: Norwegian war photographer Harald Henden spent his life documenting the stories of others – usually at their hardest moments. Now, he is the story…
Russians at War
RUSSIA: An anti-war camera slips past permits and platitudes, capturing motives, injuries, and doubts while institutions debate safety, speech, and empathy.
Sisters of Ukraine
UKRAINE: Mike Dorsey’s Sisters of Ukraine offers a fresh – and emotional – look at the refugee crisis sparked by Russia’s 2002 invasion, and the international response to it.
Special Operation
UKRAINE: Unfiltered surveillance of wartime routine builds toward an unseen horror.
The Big Chief
COLD WAR: A gripping archival documentary explores the life of a Soviet intelligence legend caught in the web of 20th-century persecution and historical ambiguity.
The taste of Kyiv
UKRAINE: How can you think when you are surrounded by explosions? In Kyiv, the normal and the abnormal exist side by side. Here, UNESCO has reported at least 670 destroyed cultural sites, including 145 religious and 238 of historical/artistic significance. On this investigative journey, we meet European intellectuals on the front line. How can we bear witness to and share their reality?
Let the young die
CONFLICT: Ville Suhonen’s study of the cult of youth soldiers in inter-war Finland shows there’s nothing new in the old sacrificing the young for their own aims.