Status: Free

"Status: Free" is an attempt to create a collective portrait of the new creative emigration. Before us is a story about free and brave artists, recorded by journalist and writer Sergey Nikolaevich, who himself left Russia after the start of the war. His heroes did not want to become hostages of official propaganda, chose to do without the state's noose, and were not afraid to express their position against Putin's aggression. How is their life today? What problems have they encountered in the West? What does it mean to be Russian under current circumstances? And how do they see their own future and prospects for their country? Among the heroes are Kirill Serebrennikov, Renata Litvinova, Chulpan Khamatova, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Maxim Galkin, Dmitry Krymov, Ivan Vyrypaev, Polina Ossetinskaya, and others. "Status: Free" is a snapshot of the current reality of today, an instant photo of the constantly changing life of creativity.