We would like to present you, Adam Doudourkhanov’s short film which is based on a real story. With this film, the young Chechen director tries to exhibit the character of Chechen people.
A documentary movie about the Radio Liberty’s correspondent Andrei Babitsky’s work in Chechnya. Throughout the autumn of 1999, Andrei Babitsky was practically the only journalist reporting first-hand on the war in Chechnya. But when his live broadcasts began to challenge the official Russian story of military triumph, he was arrested and imprisoned. This compelling documentary recounts Babitsky’s attempts to broadcast the truth about the war in Chechnya.
Dance Grozny Dance (the Sacred and the Damned) is a documentary movie from 2002 which is about a children’s dance troupe from the ravaged Chechen capital of Grozny, and their European Tour, in Amsterdam, London, Krakow and Warsaw.
“The Betrayed” is a feature length documentary on the brutal Russian Invasion in Chechnya. The documentary which was directed by Clive Gordon, examines with horrible honesty the motivations of everyone involved in the madness and shows how each and every faction in the conflict interacts with all the others, with, for the most part, the best intentions. One example from a film studded with perfect street interviews: An old Chechen lady hysterically tells that the Russian infantry are throwing hand grenades into cellars crowded with women and children. She is not acting. It is, or was, happening, just up the […]
In her latest project, “0.8 Square Metres“, Estonian director Kristina Norman worked with the physical and emotional dimension of the concept of imprisonment.
“LETTER TO ANNA”: a personal quest, but also a political. It’s the story of journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s death. A film by Eric Bergkraut, 83 minutes.
“Ahmed – Almost 13” (Ahmed – Snart 13) is a short documentary movie. The story is a unique glimpse inside the four walls of a Chechen family living in Norway, seen through the eyes of Ahmed who is 13 year old.
Russian cinematographer Lev Chesnov visited a wedding in the village of Kurchaloy in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, and during his visit he prepared a short movie: “Making Jijig Galnish in the village of Kurchaloy at a Chechen wedding”.
On February 11, 1943, the Politburo, the Communist Party’s ruling executive committee (Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), discussed the idea of “liquidating” the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic and expelling the entire Chechen-Ingush nation based on the accusation of “collaboration with the Germans”. Lavrenty Beria, Stalin’s chief of secret police and the “engineer” of the deportation, and Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s successor, supported deportation rather than expulsion and the Soviets started planning to deport 425,000 Chechens and 93,000 Ingush in one night, an operation that cost nearly 150 million Rubles (3,9 million Euro).
“Dear Muslim…” – thus begins a Chechen mother Satsita’s diary, which she writes for her four-year-old son, Muslim, so that he will one day understand what his parents experienced in the war in Chechnya.
This documentary movie is an examination of Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya’s death while covering the brutal Russian occupation in Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and Russian President Vladimir Putin. As the anatomy of a murder, “211: Anna” is named for the 211th Russian journalist who died since the Soviet Union’s collapse in Russia. The movie directed by Giovanna Massimetti and Paolo Serbandini.
On June 21-22 2010, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session took place in Strasbourg city of France. During the session, Dick Marty presented his report after his recent visit to North Caucasus, and Human Rights Center “Memorial” presented its short movie “Victims Take the Floor” which consists of interviews of the victims of human rights abuses in the North Caucasus, recorded by “Memorial” members.
On March 2, 2010, Professor Mohammad Adel Shashani, Vice President of World Chechen Congress; Professor Emma Gilligan from the University of Connecticut who specialises in Soviet history, human rights and genocide; and Lord Frank Judd who just visited Chechnya as part of the British parliament’s committee on human rights appeared at Riz Khan’s Tv show on Al Jazeera English. They presented their viewpoints on the current situation in Chechnya.
The film we present below is dedicated to the massacre in the village of Novy Aldy on February 5, 2000. This incident was one of the most terrible and bloody pages of the Russian occupation in Chechnya.
A really moving personal video on the reality of the genocide in Chechnya which commits by Russian forces as told by Stanley Greene, a war photographer, through his own experiences, moving photos and insight into the war.
On October 25, Maksharip Aushev, an Ingush businessman and civil opposition leader, was murdered by unknown gunmen who sprayed his car with more than 60 bullets. Shortly before his death, filmmakers Dom Rotheroe and Antony Butts spoke with him for their film on the conflict in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. “People and Power” programme of Aljazeera tv channel broadcasted this documentary movie on October 28, 2009.
