Black January
20 January
Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
www.frontlineclub.com


Top Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky is uniquely placed to explore the dramatic events that rocked Baku 25 years ago and contributed to the fall of the USSR. As a Russian-born citizen of the Soviet Union, his acclaimed documentary on the political and social turbulence that led to a resurgence of Azerbaijan’s national identity after decades under the hammer and sickle combines the views both of an insider and a dispassionate observer as the history books turned over a new chapter. Buta remembers the 25th anniversary of the massacre of supporters of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan on Jan 20, 1990 with a special screening of Konchalovsky’s work, introduced by the director himself.