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.
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Victory Day
RUSSIA: Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army’s victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.
The bot economy
TECH: Discover the silent drain on global ad budgets with Unclickable, an investigative documentary revealing how digital ad fraud impacts not just companies but the very fabric of society and democracy.
Of Caravans and the Dogs
RUSSIA: Askold Kurov’s compelling documentary Of Caravan and the Dogs details the final destruction of independent voices in Putin’s Russia that oppose his war on Ukraine.
The meaning of war
UKRAINE: Abel Ferrara’s idiosyncratic take on the war in Ukraine melds poetic performances by Patti Smith with the experience of people at war.
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.”
Before the fall
RUSSIA How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary army, Wagner, grew to become a major tool in Russian foreign policy – murdering its way across Africa and Ukraine.
Dark days revisited
SYRIA: Former ISIS hostage Marc Marginedas returns to Raqqa to confront the ghosts of his past.