Memory review – a cinematic exorcism through a child’s eye view of terror in the Chechen wars

Vladlena Sandu’s extraordinary portrait of an upbringing during the 1990s Chechen wars blends surreal tableaux with flights of imagination to lament a collective loss of innocence Born in Feodosia, a Ukrainian city on the Crimean coast, Vladlena Sandu moved to her mother’s home…

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