Venice Days Selections Explore Russia’s ‘Willing Blindness’ During Chechen Wars, Silence Over Ukraine

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 the Kremlin decades ago — and, in the process, draw chilling parallels to events unfolding today. “Memory,” a poetic and deeply personal hybrid documentary […]