This year’s Oscar nominees for best international feature film include the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” assembled from footage smuggled out of Russia in 2024 by its creator, Pavel Talankin, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the chances of President Donald Trump’s peace deal in Ukraine seemingly recede, attention turns back to the question of ...
Karabash used to be called “the most polluted city in the world,” but then, in 2025, it achieved fame thanks instead to the documentary film Mr. Nobody against Putin. Now the film is up for an Oscar.
The new film by Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky––Freedom On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom––premiered this September at the Venice International Film Festival. This fall it came to the ...
A Rising Fury follows a Ukrainian couple in love, tracing the roots of Russia’s war from the 2013 Kyiv uprising to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. To me, Ukraine is the Nightwatch of democracy.
At the request of Russia's Education Ministry, teacher Pavel Talankin helped film pro-war propaganda efforts at an elementary school in the town of Karabash. But ministry officials did not suspect he ...
Aug. 5, 2024, update: This story has been updated to include post-release interviews with Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko and her girlfriend, Sonia Subbotina. Last week’s historic prisoner swap with ...
The Oscar-winner ventures to the front lines of the battle in a behind-the-scenes account of the devastating conflict. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large The Oscar-winning actor and longtime political ...
The first trailer has been released for Sean Penn’s upcoming war documentary Superpower, which chronicles Ukraine’s battle for independence against an invading Russia. The Oscar-winning actor and ...