VENICE 2025 Giornate degli Autori
Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory
"We need to start talking about the rights of children in dictatorships and war zones"
by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico
VENICE 2025: The Crimean-born, Chechen-raised director talks about her film, in which she wonders if it's possible to escape from the cycle of violence passed down from generation to generation
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Crimean-born, Chechen-raised director Vladlena Sandu talks to us about her hybrid film Memory [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Vladlena Sandu
film profile], in which she revisits memories of her childhood during the war, and wonders if it's possible to escape from the cycle of violence passed down from generation to generation. Memory is the opening film (in competition) of the 22nd Giornate degli Autori at Venice.
