Critic’s Pick. “One of the year’s most towering achievements . . . brilliant, riveting, vital, devastating.” Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times

How do you keep fighting for the truth when your country declares you an outlaw? What begins as an intimate epic about young Russian independent journalists fighting Vladimir Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia invades Ukraine and the journalists must choose whether to flee into exile. A front-row seat to how authoritarianism works and the lives of those who resist, this film becomes increasingly relevant both globally and in the United States every day. “A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent” (Justin Chang, New Yorker).