Two documentaries paint a brutal reality of Vladimir Putin’s regime with the Russian press under siege in My Undesirable Friends , and of hundreds of terrified animals at risk in Checkpoint Zoo , an unusual Ukraine rescue story with Leonardo DiCaprio as EP.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022 and the docs hit theaters in limited release as the war drags on and Donald Trump is set to meet with Putin in Alaska today seeking a ceasefire, although Volodymyr Zelenskyy is excluded from the talks. Trump has said he hopes the summit will lead to a second meeting that would include the Ukrainian president and possibly other European leaders.

My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air In Moscow premieres at Film Forum. The first chapters of Soviet-born American filmmaker Julia Lo

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