The writer, director, editor and narrator of “Memory,” Vladlena Sandu, grew up in ’90s Chechnya. War was on her doorstep, and often not only there, but inside her childhood home, with its boots under ...

If, as they say, the first casualty of war is innocence, then the harrowing memoir Memory from director Vladlena Sandu is the proof. Born in Crimea in the early ’80s and sent to live with her ...

Ukrainian director Vladlena Sandu's strikingly illustrated recollections of her childhood in war-torn Grozny form an anguished, urgent, mesmerizing portrait of self-replicating generational trauma. “I ...