The crew of 'Songs of Slow Burning Earth' wore clothing on Venice's prestigious red carpet embroidered with the distances from the Lido to various locations where Russians are holding Ukrainian ...

Controversy arose at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 following the screening of a documentary film that attempts to humanize Russian soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Russian-Canadian ...

A new documentary film from Anastasia Trofimova is being slammed as an attempt to justify Moscow's war crimes in Ukraine. Courtesy of TIFF A documentary accused of portraying Russian soldiers as ...

Documentaries about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are nothing new. PBS, Sean Penn and the BBC have all produced substantive films in the first 2½ years of the conflict. There aren’t, however, a lot of ...

Aug. 5, 2024, update: This story has been updated to include post-release interviews with Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko and her girlfriend, Sonia Subbotina. Last week’s historic prisoner swap with ...

Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman’s documentary of a contemporary Russia pocked with international logos in which five Muscovites recall their ...