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- A series of videos containing footage of real life events that were too disturbing for television.
- A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
- After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
- An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
- In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes all become commonplace. Consolation and help only come from neighbours and relatives or accidentally met strangers people who themselves live with the loss or who are ones that have returned from where no one returns. The neighbour waits for her son and sees him in dreams almost every night even though more than five years have passed since the son was kidnapped. She does not have her son alive and she does not have him dead. The gray-haired man without an ear and with a burned hand still cannot think of life outside the prison cell. The adult son plays with the cloth rope and is dependent on his mother and sisters for most of his daily needs. What is then to live in a city where grand mosques lie next to torture prisons, where official statements are less valid than those heard at divination sessions, where pronouncements of death are occasions of joy, where streets are full of the ghostly presences of the dead and the missing; where the laughter of pain, a prayer, and a dream are the only solace? Barzakh, - a land between the living and the dead?
- Fifteen years from its inception, YouTube retains the power to shock and disorient - particularly when wielded by children who have lived their whole lives in its era. A found-footage documentary composed entirely of social media videos by teenagers weathering hostile education and a climate of terror in contemporary Russia, "Manifesto" contains one vignette after another to make viewers wince with discomfort and even outright horror. One's first impulse might be to ask whether any documentary should show such material at all - yet of course, it has been freely available for public viewing all along. As such, "Manifesto" invites uneasy consideration of the differing responsibilities of creating, consuming and externally curating candid video, and provides no guidance. In selecting and assembling several years' worth of amateur video into a constructed, collective life-in-a-day feature, the presumably pseudonymous filmmaker Angie Vinchito takes considerable risks of decontextualization. There's no narration to bind or editorialize these disparate but symphonically despairing mini-narratives of physical abuse and psychological oppression, and "Manifesto" counts on viewers' knowledge of recent Russian politics and social norms to determine which videos present uncompromised reality, which may be documenting pranks or performance, and which have been alarmingly coerced.
- A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
- As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
- All cats on Earth begun to murder peoples. Nobody knows what's happening. Cats want only mankind's death.
- The lives of three teens from war-torn Chechnya. Their hopes of becoming Olympic greco-roman wrestlers is set against the backdrop of extreme poverty and the immense expectations of their families.
- For the very first time, Chechen and Russian mothers of KIA rebels and soldiers will meet in Grozny to forgive or to blame, to tell the truth about the war and share their own secrets on how to stop the violence and live in peace.
- The ambition, envy and jealousy of Ian Fastlicht Nava will manage to take away the innocence and ruin the life of Francisco Universe, harassing him psychologically and brainwashing Tomás Moya anyway.
- In 1996, during the first Chechnyan war, Florent Marcie, a young French director travels through Chechnya in the cold of winter to meet those "indomitable Chechens", a defiant nation in resistance.
- The story of a Russian journalist, Andrei Babitsky, who was a controversial anti-war correspondent in Chechnya for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) during the Second Russian-Chechen War. The horrors of the war are shown in Babitsky's own footage, with the story of his subsequent arrest by the Russian military due to having formerly been a critic of the Russian military, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and military invasion itself as brutal and cruel.
- 2022–9.6 (15)TV EpisodeAs in Grozny and Aleppo, Russian army destroys Volnovakha in east Ukraine to occupy it. Unnecessarily destruction of civilian property is a war crime.
- 2022–9.7 (15)TV EpisodeAs in Grozny and Aleppo, Russian army destroys Mariupol in east Ukraine to occupy it. Unnecessarily destruction of civilian property is a war crime.
- 2022–9.6 (15)TV EpisodeAs in Grozny and Aleppo, Russian army almost destroyed the town of Izium near Kharkiv. Killed people are buried in the streets. Schools, hospital, shops, housings destroyed. Unnecessarily destruction of civilian property is a war crime.
- About the mental life of those people who risk their lives every day in the war zones of the world. In 1986 the photographer Ursula Meissner travels through Afghanistan for the first time - disguised as a man - at the side of the Mujahideen. Friedhelm Brebeck is the ARD correspondent in Sarajevo. On February 5, 1994, he barely escaped a grenade impact on the city's main market, in which almost 70 people died. Journalist Christian Liebig was "embedded" in a US infantry division during the Iraq war. In April 2003, his unit succeeds in penetrating the center of Baghdad and occupying Saddam Hussein's presidential palace.