In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev was gifted a piece of land in Pankisi by his mother. A Georgian valley region at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains near the Chechen border, Pankisi ...
“Memory,” Vladlena Sandu’s war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of its world premiere on the Lido. A personal project, “Memory” is a feature ...
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 ...