Where Russia Ends

Там, де закінчується Росія

Composed entirely of archive footage rediscovered in the Kyiv Popular Science Film Studios in 2022, this film interrogates Russian imperialism and the destruction of Indigenous land.

In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers undertook several film expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. Their forgotten film reels were rediscovered in Kyiv in 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This mesmerising archive is a starting point for a film essay that interrogates Russian imperialism, resource extraction, environmental destruction and the ongoing oppression and erasure of Indigenous peoples in Russia’s colonies, from the time of the Tsars through the Soviet era and the present day.

This film will screen as part of the programme Shorts: Haunted by the Present.