Broken Ties

“Broken Ties” (dir Andrey Loshak)
Film Screening & Q&A
Presented by TVOR – Russians Against the War in partnership with the Russian Democratic Society

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In memory of Anna Politkovskaya


The war in Ukraine not only affected Ukrainians. It also arrived in many Russian families. The whole society is split in two camps: the protesters against and the supporters of “the special military operation”. There is no neutrality anymore. And “mutual understanding” isn’t possible. Every Russian citizen has someone amongst their family and friends with whom after the 24th of February they can no longer converse, or at least have to minimise all contact. Parents break up with children, wives with husbands, sisters with their brothers... No arguments seem to work as people believe the propagandists on TV easier that their own loved ones.

Andrey Loshak’s documentary Broken Ties is about the families that were broken by the war in Ukraine. Seven pairs of people, the closest to each other, give their separate accounts of the breakup. Andrey is asking them the same questions, but separately. The filmmaking started at the beginning of the war and during the process none of the participants changed their mind.

This film is not so much an attempt of a dialogue, but a sad testimony of the impossibility of one. An uncompromised diagnosis to the sick society, where propaganda is stronger than the ties between the loved ones.


Andrey Loshak is a Russian TV journalist and filmmaker who considers himself, first and foremost, a reporter. Winner of a TEFI, a prestigious Russian media award, for his television reporting, Loshak has worked for Russia’s national networks NTV and STS. He is the creator of Current Time's 2019 mini-series InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet. Loshak was forced to leave Russia after the 24th February 2022.


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Presented by TVOR – Russians Against the War in partnership with the Russian Democratic Society