Labor rhythms of Checheno-Ingushetia

Babitsky's War

2000

Documentary of the Second Chechen War, centered on the work of war journalist Andrei Babitsky..

Business Trip to Death

1996

Short documentary about Russian special forces during the Third Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War

Traces: People of the Peacock

2016

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

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An auteur-director who wishes to make a documentary about Armenia imagines a fictitious character that has the ability to travel through bodies. The latter will alternatively embody: a young farmer that dreams to flee from the countryside to more urban spheres, a prostitute who is a survivor of rape, a narcissistic client, a fallen artist and finally, a resisting deserter.

Salam Aleikum, Ingush people!

1993

Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.

Melodies of the mountains

2006

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya

2018 · ★ 3

The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined in this documentary.

One wife, two wives. Dagestani Stories

2011 · ★ 10

About 30 ethnic groups live in the Republic of Dagestan, each with its own language and customs. The prevalence of the Muslim way of life is a distinctive feature of this republic. The number of men taking second and third wives has increased. However, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a man can only be married to one wife. So, being both a law-abiding citizen and a model Muslim is not yet possible.

No Nation Without Culture

2022

“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

Architects of Denial

2017 · ★ 6.9

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the mainstream media and not on the radar of many average Americans, it is a subject that has gotten far more attention in recent years.

60 Hours of the Maikop Brigade

1995

A two-part documentary about the Russian Army's disastrous assault on Grozny on New Year's Eve, 1994.

Hell

1995

Alexander Nevzorov's documentary of the storming of Grozny in 1994-95