‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia

The revered cinematographer was making an apocalyptic musical with Tilda Swinton deep in a salt mine when he realised he had to flee. Can he now save his son?

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Watched #TheActOfKilling and #TheLookOfSilence last week. I don't think there ever was a #documentary that affected me as much as they did. I still can't stop thinking about them, and I don't think I'll stop for a long while.

It is more than just this specific genocide. It is very dark but also an incredible looking glass and prism of human nature and psyche that I have ever seen. Philosophical, raw and revolutionary. #JoshuaOppenheimer is a true artist.