“While shooting my feature documentary film, Memory, in April of 2021 in Grozny, Chechnya (the birthplace of my mother and where I grew up), I felt the influence of the gigantic portraits of Putin, Kadyrov Senior and Kadyrov Junior all over the city. They observed me from everywhere. In parallel to the production of the film, we set out to capture the feeling of totalitarianism that these portraits conveyed. We got up at 4 in the morning and shot through the window of a car because such actions put us under threat of persecution. We understood that we were documenting the time of the birth of fascism in Russia.” Vladlena Sandu
Vladlena Sandu
Director
60 Hours of the Maikop Brigade
1995
Hell
1995
Business Trip to Death
1996
Babitsky's War
2000
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
2018
Labor rhythms of Checheno-Ingushetia
1972
Kamchatka - The Cure for Hatred
2014
Dictator: One Crazy Job
2013
The Betrayed
1995
Beyond Borders
2003
The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Cage is Looking for a Bird
2023