The film, 'Russians at War,' was helmed by a Russian-Canadian director and purports to show Russian soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine grappling with the war.
Ukrainian diplomats and advocates in Canada are calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to cancel screenings of a documentary depicting Russian soldiers fighting inon Tuesday after showing out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this month. It was helmed by a Russian-Canadian director and was funded by Canadian public broadcasters — in part through government grants — and an Oscar-nominated Canadian producer.
Nikolenko said he has not seen the film but has concerns that it makes no mention of the mass civilian casualties in Ukraine or other crimes committed by the Russians in their nearly three-year invasion. He also says Trofimova’s past work for the Russian state-controlled media company RT, and her unfettered access to Russian troops, are cause for suspicion, and that crossing into Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory with the unit violated Ukrainian law.
Trofimova told the Globe and Mail on Sunday that she used to work for the RT Documentary channel that is separate from RT News, with a focus on the Middle East, and left for the CBC after “the relatively liberal atmosphere in which we were working started to change.”accuses RT employees of covertly funding American content creation companies to spread Russian propaganda about Ukraine and influence the 2024 U.S. election.
“Why not bring a film about Nazis and the Holocaust, and show that they were also ordinary people?” he asked. “I mean, it’s ridiculous.” It encouraged people to see the documentary for themselves, adding it will be shown on TVO in the coming months.
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