“How do you fight for the truth when your country declares you an outlaw?” When the Russian-American journalist Julia Loktev went to Russia in October 2021, she could never have predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Loktev intended to make a documentary about two journalists who’d been branded as “foreign agents” because their reporting didn’t align with the regime’s narrative. As Russia’s entire independent news industry came under fire, she pivoted. Loktev instead produced a gripping chronicle of the Russian Gen-Z media crusaders who risk their lives daily. “Intimate. Enormous. Urgent,” says Variety. “A political portrait of speaking truth to power, and speaking it together.” —Alexandra Lemer