Moscow electronic musician Moa Pillar (Fyodor Pereverzev) and founder of Ored Recordings label Bulat Khalilov meet in Nalchik and set off on a trip to Kabardino-Balkaria and Adygea to try to create a dialogue of cultures through melody.

After the completion of the project, Bulat noted that the result of the "dialogue" was very strange since it was just Circassian traditional motifs mixed with beats and sound effects, which made this trip meaningless. With the same success, one could simply find recordings of these motives and create the same track without leaving Moscow.

Israeli adult animated war documentary drama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman's search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War.


*Particularly about the details of this film is written in my Degree Essay.

Joe Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco lived for a month in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water. The book features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair.

"Unastoria" is a comics where two different stories are intertwined. The first one is about Silvano Landi, a writer who, on the threshold of fifty years, sees his life falling apart and the second one is about his ancestor Mauro, a soldier in the carnage of the First World War.

1944 The defeat of Finland in World War II forces it to hand over the Karelian Isthmus to the Soviet Union. The civilian population has to hurriedly leave their native villages, leave their land and livestock. Against the backdrop of an urgent evacuation, the stories of two heroes unfold - the deserter Auvo Oksala, who, having fallen under fire, goes crazy and cannot understand whether he is alive or dead; and milkmaid Maria Shemeikka, who, even under the threat of death, is trying to save a herd of cows from her village ... Turning to the topic of war, Hanneriina Moisseinen does not speak at all about heroism, courage and stamina, but about what terrible consequences any military actions have for those who were forced to fight, and those who became their unwitting victims.

The Isthmus is based on the archival records of the Finnish Literary Society Foundation, as well as eyewitness accounts of the ordeal experienced during the evacuation in Karelia, collected in 1997-1999.

History of the Holocaust in the form of a comic book. Vladek Spiegelman, Art's father, tells his son how he got through the ghetto, Auschwitz and the "death march" to Dachau. However, "Maus" is also a deeply personal story of the author, his attempt to sort out his difficult relationship with his family.

Based on dozens of interviews and an extensive list of investigative journalism, this graphic novel reconstructs a picture of the Yazidi genocide perpetrated by ISIS in northwestern Iraq.

The graphic reportage by journalist Tore Rörbeck and artist Mikkel Sommer takes place in 2014 in Iraq. ISIS (a banned terrorist organization in Russia) is attacking the Yezidis, a local religious minority, in an effort to eradicate "Satanists". Muslim neighbors and Kurdish soldiers refuse to save the Yazidis from the genocide, so the latter are forced to flee to Mount Shingal, which has served them as a refuge for several centuries. Over 50,000 people are trapped on top of a mountain in the scorching sun...

Shangal, a non-fictional story of betrayal and religious bigotry, courage and self-sacrifice, is based on eyewitness accounts collected by Tohre and Mikkel during their 2017 trip to Iraq.

The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.

Victoria Lomasko is a contemporary Russian artist and curator. Since 2008, he has been writing in the genre of “graphic reporting”, which existed in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia, but disappeared after the collapse of the USSR. Based on the traditions of Russian reportage drawing (siege, concentration camp, military albums).

Author of lectures and articles on reportage graphics. As an artist-activist, she cooperates with the media and human rights organizations. In addition, she teaches drawing to teenagers in juvenile detention centers.

The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 war film based on events undertaken by rebels during the Algerian War (1954–1962) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the eponymous Battle of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It was shot on location in a Roberto Rossellini-inspired newsreel style: in black and white with documentary-type editing to add to its sense of historical authenticity, with mostly non-professional actors who had lived through the real battle. The film's score was composed by Pontecorvo and Ennio Morricone. It is often associated with Italian neorealist cinema.

The film concentrates mainly on revolutionary fighter Ali La Pointe during the years between 1954 and 1957, when guerrilla fighters of the FLN went into Algiers. Their actions were met by French paratroopers attempting to regain territory. The highly dramatic film is about the organization of a guerrilla movement and the illegal methods, such as torture, used by the French to stop it. Algeria succeeded in gaining independence from the French, which Pontecorvo addresses in the film's epilogue.

Kyiv based Ukranian illustrator and printmaker.

Japanese artist (1937-2001).