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With unparalleled access, Of Caravan and the Dogs follows a group of independent journalists and activists in Russia whose criticism of the war in Ukraine leads to their censorship and exile.
‘There’s such a thing as self-respect’, muses one journalist in a staff meeting called to discuss the ethics of publishing under new, arcane censorship laws.
Structured around a countdown to war, the film intercuts tense meetings between newspaper staff with footage of Russian police ransacking media offices, televised broadcasts by Putin, large-scale protests in Russia and on-the-ground footage from an embattled Ukraine.
The film is both a powerful exploration of the personal dilemmas of people living under strict repression and a unique perspective on resistance movements within a notoriously hermetic state.
The screening on Tue 30 July was followed by a filmmaker Q&A, hosted by Dr. Ilya Yablokov.
