Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Director Vladlena Sandu discusses her film, a 2026 selection of New Directors/New Films, with New Directors/New Films selection committee member Dan Sullivan.

Thanking Tarkovsky, Parajanov, and Pasolini in its opening credits, Vladlena Sandu’s autobiographical first feature, the opening night selection of 2025 Venice Days, enfolds the end of the USSR and the Chechen Wars of Independence into delicate and poetic reenactments.

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