Vladlena Sandu’s extraordinary portrait of an upbringing during the 1990s Chechen wars blends surreal tableaux with flights of imagination to lament a collective loss of innocence Born in Feodosia, a Ukrainian city on the Crimean coast, Vladlena Sandu moved to her mother’s home town of Grozny in ...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/03/memory-review-a-childs-eye-view-of-terror-in-chechnya-vladlena-sandu)