Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Kira Kovalenko's Unclenching the Fists is showing exclusively on Mubi starting May 23, 2023, in many countries in the series Viewfinder.Unclenching the Fists.Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has been almost impossible for members of the global film industry to ignore cinema’s soft power potential as a propagandistic tool of imperialism. Scrutiny over the ethics of supporting films funded by the Russian Ministry of Culture or tied in other ways to state oppression has ignited debate over what Russian culture constitutes—and exposed the fallacy of a monolithic identity within the lands the Kremlin claims as its own. Director Kira Kovalenko’s sophomore feature Unclenching the Fists (2021) counts Russia as its country of production (and was its official Oscar submission). But it was shot in the Ossetian language, in North Ossetia, an official...
- 5/26/2023
- MUBI
NEW YORK -- Two years after being effectively frozen out by Russian officials, ABC News said that it will send a correspondent to its Moscow bureau.
The hiring of Clarissa Ward puts an end to a two-year saga that started in summer 2005, when "Nightline" aired a freelancer's interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. The Russian government, which regards Basayev as their Osama bin Laden, struck out against ABC News. Before the interview aired, the network was told by Russia that it would get nothing from the government, including accreditation as foreign journalists.
The ban affected only ABC News' correspondents, who weren't permitted to enter the country. The bureau continued to function with local staff members. The bureau opened in 1963, but during its off-period the network voiced material elsewhere or used reports from networks it has content-sharing deals with like the BBC.
ABC News had spent the past two years negotiating with the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow and in Washington.
The hiring of Clarissa Ward puts an end to a two-year saga that started in summer 2005, when "Nightline" aired a freelancer's interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. The Russian government, which regards Basayev as their Osama bin Laden, struck out against ABC News. Before the interview aired, the network was told by Russia that it would get nothing from the government, including accreditation as foreign journalists.
The ban affected only ABC News' correspondents, who weren't permitted to enter the country. The bureau continued to function with local staff members. The bureau opened in 1963, but during its off-period the network voiced material elsewhere or used reports from networks it has content-sharing deals with like the BBC.
ABC News had spent the past two years negotiating with the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow and in Washington.
- 10/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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