In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev was gifted a piece of land in Pankisi by his mother. A Georgian valley region at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains near the Chechen border, Pankisi ...
More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...
“Memory,” Vladlena Sandu’s war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of its world premiere on the Lido. A personal project, “Memory” is a feature ...
The writer, director, editor and narrator of "Memory," Vladlena Sandu, grew up in '90s Chechnya. War was on her doorstep, and often not only there, but inside her childhood home, with its boots under ...
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Rise of Putin: The Second Chechen War
In the aftermath of chaos and collapse following the Soviet Union's fall, Russia stood on the brink. Amid this instability, a little-known former KGB officer emerged from the shadows. This episode ...
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