Tweet TweetDirector Kitty Green (3rdR) poses with Femen activists at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2013. AFP/GABRIEL BOUYS In a revelation sure to disappoint Femen supporters — and vindicate its critics — a documentary unveiled Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival showed the true, unexpected, face behind the Ukraine-based feminist group: Victor Svyatski. While Svvatski’s participation in the movement was already known — the Ukrainian has oft been cited as a “consultant” to the group — claims of his deeper role have shocked many, including some Femen members. According >>>

This week I have been told that I'm not a feminist, that my fight is not real. I have been told that people don't believe my slogans any more, that my ideas are fake. I have been condemned for fighting male domination in my life, for fighting the patriarchy.The Australian director Kitty Green spent one year with Femen activists in Ukraine shooting a documentary that is showing at the 70th Venice film festival. The film, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, is a history of Femen. It shows a crucial paradox of the movement, one that has now become a scandal. It concerns one of the men interviewed in the >>>

This week I have been told that I'm not a feminist, that my fight is not real. I have been told that people don't believe my slogans any more, that my ideas are fake. I have been condemned for fighting male domination in my life, for fighting the patriarchy.The Australian director Kitty Green spent one year with Femen activists in Ukraine shooting a documentary that is showing at the 70th Venice film festival. The film, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, is a history of Femen. It shows a crucial paradox of the movement, one that has now become a scandal. It concerns one of the men interviewed in the >>>