International Documentary Film Festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Antidote

James Jones

Antidote

What is the cost of speaking truth to power? In Putin’s Russia, it could mean your life. An immersive and chilling documentary, Antidote follows in real time a whistleblower from inside Russia's poison program as he attempts to escape, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent political activist who is poisoned twice and now stands trial for treason and his wife Evgenia, and Christo Grozev, the journalist exposing Putin's murder machine as he is told he is under threat and is forced to go on the run himself. In this film, Emmy-winning filmmaker James Jones reveals the human cost of heroism, with incredible access and insight into the lives of those fighting for change against a tyrannical regime that will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo.

UK 2024, '89

DIRECTOR: James Jones

James Jones

James Jones

James Jones is an Emmy-winning British director who makes documentary films for international television and theatrical release. His documentaries tell extraordinary human stories from all over the world. The films combine journalistic rigor with a distinctive
cinematic sensibility and often take on authoritarian regimes. James is a Russian-speaker with a longstanding interest in Russia. He recently made the BAFTA and Cinema Eye-winning film Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes. His series Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn aired on Apple TV last year.

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