Vladimir Putin

Documentary that follows Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in autumn 2002, when he - as President of the EU - lead the negotiations on the EU's eastward expansion. The film portrays the spin, pressure and manipulation by politicians and officials, and triggered a fierce debate in the media.

Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in? (imdb)

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years' imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. (berlinale.de)

Our New President (2018) is an archival documentary that explores the cult of Donald J. Trump through fake news and other methods of destabilized perception. Compiled from state-controlled political programming and congratulatory addresses to Trump from average Russians, the film shows Russia's fawning over Trump as a carefully manufactured ideological project. (imdb)

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement. (imdb)

The conflict in the East of Ukraine according to the Ukraine's side.

An interview with former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most influential figures of the last century, whose rule heralded the end of the Soviet Union. In an intimate setting, he gives his view of Russia then and now.

A rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power. (imdb)