RUSSIANS AT WAR

CANADA, FRANCE | 2024 | COLOR | DCP | 129’ | RUSSIAN

The director follows a Russian battalion in Ukraine. One of the soldiers asks about the footage she is shooting and another one instantly replies that she is filming the truth, not media news truth, their truth. And this truth, filmed with an absolute sense of responsibility towards the protagonists, is neither for those who view the soldiers as bloodthirsty war criminals nor for those who see them as national heroes. It is a risky, though dispassionate, record of men struggling to exist in the futility of yet another war. In the ideal world, it could bring the two sides closer together. In the current one, it’s doomed to provoke reactions similar to the truth it preaches.

DIRECTOR: Anastasia Trofimova
DoP: Anastasia Trofimova
MUSIC: Amine Bouhafa
EDITOR: Roland Schlimme

ANASTASIA TROFIMOVA
Russian-Canadian documentary director, producer and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her work in Iraq, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Russians at War
2021 Mila’s Angels
2017 The Road to Raqqa
2017 Congo, My Precious
2015 Her War: Women Vs. ISIS
2015 Victims of ISIS