Controversy arose at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 following the screening of a documentary film that attempts to humanize Russian soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova, the director of “Russians at War,” was embedded with Russian troops fighting a war of aggression in Ukraine. “I didn’t go there with prejudgement. Of course, I had all these stereotypes in my head that I got from reading Russian and Western media. But I didn’t judge (the Russian soldiers),” she said in an interview with Fred Film Radio during the festival. The docume…
