More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled the Kremlin decades ago — and, in the process, draw chilling parallels to events unfolding today.
“Memory,” a poetic and deeply personal hybrid documentary from filmmaker Vladlena Sandu that opens the Venice Days strand, is an effort to process the trauma inflicted on the director when she was a young girl during the 1990s war in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Meanwhile, “Short Summer,” by Nastia Korkia, is a tender coming-of-age story that takes place a
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