David Borenstein

David Borenstein

David Borenstein is an American documentary filmmaker. Borenstein lives and works in Copenhagen.

Borenstein began his career in radio broadcasting and directed his first feature film, Dream Empire, in 2016. He spent ten years in China working on the film, shooting documentaries about the fringes of Chinese society. For this work, he received several nominations and won the Golden Alexander for Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. In 2025, he released the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, which screened in the main competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

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David Borenstein Movies

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Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)

Documentary
When Russia sends its army into Ukraine, the classrooms of its rural heartland become something closer to recruitment centers. A schoolteacher, caught between his conscience and a system demanding complicity,...
Score 7.4

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