A powerful and poignant film that chronicles the disturbing militarization of Russian schools in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Working from Pavel “Pasha” Talankin’s first-hand footage, director David Borenstein exposes the extreme tactics employed by the Russian government to indoctrinate students. With the snappy casualness of a day-in-the-life vlog, Pasha, a charismatic Russian teacher who serves as planner and videographer for all his school’s events, introduces his peculiar small town: Karabash, known as one of most toxic places on Earth due to a copper smelting plant, but a place where Pasha has built a safe haven within his classroom. Yet when Putin passes a law that will sentence anyone deemed a “traitor to the motherland” to life in prison, the stakes of his ongoing vérité diary gain alarming significance.
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