Aishat Baimuradova fled her home last year in the hope of living the way she wanted, but she was then found dead in her ...

“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 ...

Ukrainian director Vladlena Sandu's strikingly illustrated recollections of her childhood in war-torn Grozny form an anguished, urgent, mesmerizing portrait of self-replicating generational trauma. “I ...

How did Russia lose the First Chechen War? This modern history documentary explores Chechnya’s struggle for independence, the military failure of Russian forces, and the rise of leaders like Dudayev ...

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 ...

Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechnya’s “Akhmat” special forces unit, has once again landed in the middle ...

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 ...