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Venice Days Selections Explore Russia’s ‘Willing Blindness’ During Chechen Wars, Silence Over Ukraine


Two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar draw uncomfortable parallels between Russia's conflict in Chechnya and the current war in Ukraine.

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