Framing Russia: three documentaries

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), screens three of the latest Mediazona productions made by displaced Russian film maker and curator Egor Isaev. He is working as a Safe Haven Fellow at NIAS and reporting from Russia and occupied Ukraine. The screening is followed by a Q&A with Egor Isaev, Jegor Skovoroda (executive editor of Mediazona) and Polina Milushkova (journalist at Dozjd/tvRain).

Framing Russia: three documentaries

Location

De Balie

Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10

1017 RR Amsterdam

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Program

The Frontier –The story of Anastasia, a young woman from Kharkiv, who tried to take her mother-in-law out of the occupied village and was detained by Russian security forces. Russian human rights activists and lawyers are sent to get Anastasia out of the detention center where she was held and tortured.

The Dog Haul –Buryatia became the first region to legalise the killing of stray animals. Putin then signed a law allowing local authorities to decide for themselves how to control the number of stray dogs. The documentary film tells the story of animal rights activists who rescue animals by registering them for themselves and sending them to other regions of Russia.

A farewell to Alexei Navalny: Chronicling the funeral – On 1 March, Alexei Navalny’s funeral was held in Moscow. Thousands of people came to honour the memory of the murdered politician. The queue from the church to Borisovsky cemetery, where he was buried, stretched for several kilometers. Mediazona travelled all this way with people who came to say goodbye to the opposition politician. Their thoughts, dialogues and moods are shown in our film.