“Giving Birth to Ourselves”: Kira Kovalenko on Unclenching the Fists

Milana Aguzarova and Soslan Khugaev in Unclenching the Fists. Unclenching the Fists, the sophomore feature from Russian director Kira Kovalenko, is set in Mizur, a small mining town in North Ossetia, one of seven autonomous republics in the perpetually unsettled…