Right after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Karabash Elementary, like schools across Russia, was ordered to indoctrinate young minds with a so-called "patriotic curriculum." Pasha Talankin, the ...

“For me, the most important thing about this story is Pasha as a character, and experiencing what he experienced,” Mr. Nobody Against Putin writer-director David Borenstein surprisingly says about his ...

"Mr Nobody Against Putin" – the 2026 Oscar-winning Best Documentary – is the story of a popular primary school teacher at a small in Karabash, a mining town in the Ural mountains, who had been ...

Co-director and subject Pavel Talankin was told he couldn't take his Best Documentary Oscar with him on a flight to Europe.

"I am these kids' propagandist." Crazy! Madman Films in Australia has unveiled an official trailer for the acclaimed, award-winning doc film called Mr Nobody Against Putin, made by director David ...

After Mr. Nobody Against Putin won the Oscar for Documentary Feature Film on Oscars night, director David Borenstein made some subtle parallels between Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America in his ...

James Baldwin famously declared the love of his country meant that, “exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” That’s easier said than done in a true authoritarian ...

A primary schoolteacher in Russia documents the government’s efforts to teach students pro-war messages. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

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Mr Nobody Against Putin, which takes on the Russian leader's propaganda and patriotism program for the nation's youth after its invasion of Ukraine, won the Oscar for best documentary feature Sunday. ...