Yuri Dmitriev digs up what today’s Russian rulers would prefer to forget. After years of searching, he finds a mass grave containing thousands of secretly executed people during Stalin’s ‘Great Terror’ of 1937 in the coniferous forests of Karelia in north-west Russia. Not the Russian government, but Dmitriev tirelessly traces their identities in the archives...

Two worlds come together when Sam (40), a professional people smuggler, reluctantly rescues Amal, a 12-year-old girl whose entire family has gone missing in the Syrian war. Amal believes they are on their way to Sweden, so she sets out on a journey to find them. Sam hesitates, but worries at the thought of leaving...