"It [is] quite disturbing when a society forces members ... to mark themselves everywhere as suspect, not really belonging to the society,"
"And we said, 'OK, let's try to make a film about this. Let's see where this goes.'"
""In that first week of the full-scale war, all that independent journalism becomes impossible in Russia," she says. "And all of these characters try to work to live another day, to just keep reporting the truth.""
""If there is a lesson, I think it's the things that people say in the film like, 'Let joy and laughter be part of our resistance,'" she says. "You know, finding meaning in pushing the stone and not giv"
In fall 2021 a filmmaker traveled to Moscow to document the Kremlin's labeling of more than 100 individuals and organizations as "foreign agents." The designation targeted reporters, bloggers and human rights groups and evoked Soviet-era repression. The project followed young journalists at TV Rain and other independent reporters who faced stigmatization, legal pressure and the threat of criminalization. Russia's February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine made independent journalism increasingly impossible, prompting many subjects to flee and forcing outlets like TV Rain to relocate abroad. Several anchors were later accused of extremism. Subjects framed resistance through persistence, joy and laughter.
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