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Showing 1 - 10 of 26 titles with a criteria of Subject is Russia


Art and Oligarchs

Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes

Close Relations (Rodnye)

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore country’s society after the Maidan revolution.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 114 minutes

Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War

A woman in Kherson navigates the horrors and absurdities of daily life during the initial weeks of the Russian war in Ukraine, adapted from Olena Astasieva's personal accounts from the front lines

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 12 minutes

Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR

Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes

From Chechnya to Chernobyl

Fleeing the war in Chechnya, refugees have settled near Chernobyl.

Bullfrog Films | 1998 | 45 minutes

The Gas Weapon

A clear and much-needed examination of the role natural gas and gas pipelines play in the geopolitics of Russia and Ukraine.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 52 minutes

The Hermitage Dwellers

This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the 'dwellers' intimate relationship with the art.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 73 minutes

Inside Russia

Inspiring stories from Ukraine about the impact of the war on ordinary people, and their fight to protect their homeland and one another.

EPF Media | 2023 | 54 minutes

La Supplication (Voices from Chernobyl)

Based on the novel by Svetlana Alexievich, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature, the film examines with the world of Chernobyl, about which we know very little. Eyewitness reports have survived: scientists, teachers, journalists, couples, children. They tell of their old daily lives, then of the catastrophe.

Andana Films | 2017 | 86 minutes

The Last Bolshevik

Chris Marker's tribute to Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin.

Icarus Films | 1998 | 116 minutes