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 First Chechen War became one of the most significant military failures of post-Soviet Russia. Poor planning, ...
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 ...
(RFE/RL) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The death late on July 9 of Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev creates a window of opportunity for those few Russian officials who advocate peace talks ...