Russia
Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.
This heartbreaking book documents the history of contemporary Russia through its women.
The Gaaga’s humor is driven by rage, anger, and disgust, emotions that are not often found in our domesticated (for easy consumption) theater scene.
Ukrainian writer, artist and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets’ diary blends the visceral with the mundane, showing just how quickly dread replaces everyday life.
In the annals of Russian repression, The New Greatness Case was a display of government overkill — until the events of this year redefined overkill.
Donbass is a powerfully gritty portrayal of thuggish aggression by people who felt empowered, with Russian support, to steal from, torment, and kill their neighbors.
What about today? Has Russia finally hit bottom and recovered? Is the political economy of vodka a thing of the past?
Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Nigeria and Uganda and the Muslim world.
Unlike the rock star supporters of Pussy Riot, Garry Kasparov lives in Moscow, which means, given how the Putin regime has dealt with critics, he has a lot more to fear than, say, Madonna, who nevertheless should be applauded for speaking out at her Moscow concert.
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