Alina Rudnitskaya has already garnered strong praise for her documentaries of absurdist wit and scalpel-sharp social comment, from shorts such as 2007’s Bitch Academy, about a school for women wanting to attract oligarch husbands by any means possible, to her 2013 debut feature Blood, which follows a mobile blood collection team to regional Russia as financial desperation drives donors to sell their blood. In the latest short by the St Petersburg Documentary Film Studio director, Victory Day, LGBT couples speak about their lives in the shadow of the new “gay propaganda” law curbing their rights.