Screening Room

Caucasus Crossroads: Life After War

Three short films, shot by local documentary filmmakers, examine how memories of war and its consequences impact ordinary citizens in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The reports are part of a Current Time project with the non-profit, Tbilisi-based multimedia outlet Chai Khana.

Belarus' 2020 Protests: Letting Protesters, Eyewitnesses Do The Filming

In this February 8, 2021 interview, film director Olga Abramchik, a multimedia producer for Current Time TV, discusses her documentary on Belarus' August 2020 presidential election protests, We Didn't Know Each Other Until This Summer.

Belarus: Recalculating Route

Let It All Burn: Russian Rockers' Fight For Free Speech

Russia's experimental rock band IC3PEAK is known for laying bare millennials' malaise. Filmmaker Andrey Loshak documented how that reputation led to a 2018 standoff with police over the right to perform.

Flight To Freedom: A Slovak Cyclist's Escape From Communism In A Hot Air Balloon

Flight To Freedom, a film by Current Time Digital video producer Mykola Nemchenko and RFE/RL multimedia coordinator Kateryna Oliynyk, shares the story of Czechoslovak cycling champion Robert Hutyra, who, in 1983, used a hot air balloon he had built to fly his family out from behind the Iron Curtain and into neighboring Austria.

Flight To Freedom: A Slovak Cyclist's Escape From Communism In A Hot Air Balloon

Flight To Freedom, a film by Current Time Digital video producer Mykola Nemchenko and RFE/RL multimedia coordinator Kateryna Oliynyk, shares the story of Czechoslovak cycling champion Robert Hutyra, who, in 1983, used a hot air balloon he had built to fly his family out from behind the Iron Curtain and into neighboring Austria.

Showing Russian Transgenders 'Not Like Freaks:' The Making Of Current Time's Form #087 Mini-Series

Current Time TV's Form #087 mini-series on the lives of transgender Russians has been nominated for Best Representation on Screen at the 2019 Content Innovation Awards on October 13. In this interview, series creator Yekaterina Ponomaryova, a Russian documentary filmmaker, explains how she came up with the idea for the series and why, despite pervasive negative stereotypes, tolerance toward transgenders runs strongest in Russia's provinces.

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet: Episode 1

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

Form #087: Aleksandra Selyaninova

In Soviet times, Aleksandra Selyaninova worked for 16 years within the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ regional offices. When she retired in 1989, she made another change as well: She changed her sex, becoming a woman. "I took off my uniform and put on a dress," she says with a laugh. (Filmmaker: Yekaterina Ponomaryova)  

Wasteland: The Lethal Soviet Legacy In Kazakhstan

Forty years of Soviet nuclear bomb tests have left a toxic wasteland in Kazakhstan. The nuclear explosions have stopped, but Russia still rents vast swathes of Kazakh territory for missile tests that critics say are devastating for the environment and its inhabitants. Filmmaker: Harutyun Mansuryan. Wasteland first aired on Current Time TV's Crossroads program in March 2019.

Return To Halabja: The Legacy Of Chemical Weapons

A survivor of the 1988 chemical gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja makes a remarkable journey back home to discover his lost family, his people, and himself. Originally broadcast by Current Time's Crossroads program. (Director: Stuart Greer, RFE/RL)