Antidote

By James Jones

2025

A deeply immersed and urgent film that reveals the cost of standing up to Vladimir Putin and telling the truth about modern Russia.

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.

Emmy-winning filmmaker James Jones reveals the human cost of heroism in ANTIDOTE, 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.

Highlighting

Civil Liberties

Premiere

Tribeca Festival June 7, 2024

Release

In United States on Frontline on May 6, 2025