Black Snow

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Directed by: Alina Simone

Runtime: 1h 40min Certificate: TBC

Topics: Environment, Sociopolitical

A Siberian mother-of-three turns citizen journalist, in this investigative thriller that skims dangerously close to the coercive grip of the Russian government.

In a country that prioritises the coal industry over the public and where the State controls the media, the residents of a remote mining town have nowhere to turn when their air becomes toxic and coal dust turns the snow black.

Incensed at the cover-ups and lies, Natalia Zubkova live streams her investigations as she uncovers the full extent of the environmental disaster unfolding around her.

Filmed over the course of four turbulent years, this taut and revelatory eco-thriller is in turn enraging and nailbiting, as Natalia is subjected to the clandestine tactics of Russia’s modern surveillance state.