Venetian selection days lightened Russian war in Chechnya

More than three years after Russia has launched its invasion in Ukraine, two films that have been foreplay in Venice Days of the Sidebar Venice Film Festival Explore a different conflict that was recalculated by the Kremlin before decades – and the process was drawn to draw parallels to events that take place today.

“Memory, a” poetic and deeply personal hybrid documentary from the Vladlene Sodale filmsher, the effort is to process the trauma applied to the director when it was a young girl during the 1990 war in the Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Meanwhile, “Brief summer”, Nastia Korkia, is a gentle story about the age story that takes place decades later, during what was known as the second Czech Republic. In it, the 8-year-old spends a summer vacation with his grandparents, because their marriage begins to fall apart, leaving it to oppose the problematic complexity of the world around it.

Although they are radically different in their approaches, two films point out that the same mechanisms of violence and repression that increased Russia through cheech conflicts. Just as the Kremlin sought to stifle disagreements against his malevolent campaign in the Republic of Rective, so that the deafening silence follows its Ukraine.

“The most important thing is not to oppose, it is not to protest, because if you do, the machine will destroy you,” Korkia says. “We see that it is really what is currently happening with all political activists (in Russia).”

The fighting in the “short flight” takes place outside the camera, mirrors director in Russia, away from the frontage frontage. The revision of that period of two decades later, Korkia recognized the “willing blind blind” of her countrymen who have proved to her what it was then – as well as in Ukraine – emphasizes “special operation”.

“For most Russians, there was this war – that we never called” war “- it was far away. And people prefer to turn from them,” says the director Variety. “While this terror happened, we lived a normal life.”

However, as a “short summer” illustrates, “the publica of war infiltrates civilian life,” Kristkia says. “We see in society inevitably confronted the consequences. When we distract ourselves, it does not disappear. In fact, it succeeds in this (the environment).”

The list had more personal share in the chechno conflict: he was born in Krimska, in the late 1980s, just a few years before the campaign of the Russian invasion and the air bombing, he strengthened Chechen capital, claiming that another 100,000 civilian millions were higher.

“Memory” believes that it is also only as a suite attempt to process its personal trauma, but as a documentary about crimes committed in Chechnya that the Creamna – and many Russians – refused to admit.

Exferralizing that silence retains. When the director, who was in 1998. left awful with his family, returned two decades later to “remember”, was forced to hide the real nature of his work. The Sandu submitted a false scenario to Russian and Chechen cultural ministries to provide recording permits, they make a “patriotic film” about their grandfather, Soviet war hero.

Even after he received that he was forwarded forward, she and her crew secretly lowered them to avoid police; Most of her team never got a full scenario, because of fear that they could put them in danger.

Air conditioning for film cats who want to examine the Russian war effort remains hostile. Korkia, who was raised in Moscow, left Russia in 2021. years to participate in the docnomads MFA program. But after 20. February 2022. Full invasions in Ukraine, says: “I didn’t see the future in my country. I didn’t see the ability to work on movies.” It is currently based between Germany and France.

Meanwhile, the box was arrested in Moscow Pushkin Square in 2022. years, while holding a sign for pixots calling for peace. Once authorities found that Ukrainian, she recognized that she would be easy target in case of wider regulation; Two weeks later she decided to leave the country.

SORRIA is now living in Amsterdam, looking afar as “both of my homelands – Crimea and Chechen Republic – remain under the occupation,” she says. It was, however, it was encouraged only determined to tell the story of Chechen war while living it.

“I have no choice to shut up,” she says. “I am one of the witness who knows the truth of how it was.”