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    Mary McNamara: At True/False, Russian filmmakers speak out for art and against their country's attack on Ukraine

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2022 5 minutes
    Local residents help clear the rubble of a home that was destroyed by a suspected Russian airstrike which killed at least six people in Markhalivka, Ukraine, on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

    "I'm sorry I seem so … sad," said the young man on the stage. Dressed in a voluminous dark hoodie, he both did and did not look like a filmmaker introducing his award-winning documentary on the first night of the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri. The film, "Where Are We Headed?," won two awards at last year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Capturing a year in the life of a big-city metro system, it encompasses a panoply of human experiences — the blank-faced morning commute, the peaceful burden of a sleeping child, a raucous New Year's celebration, police taking positions to quell a demonstration.

    But this metro is in Moscow, its baroque stations a reminder of the Soviet Union's abandonment of churches for proletarian sacristies, and the film's focus

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