documentary
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Ukrainian Sheriffs
The pair of Ukrainian Sheriffs featured in this intriguing odd-ball documentary written/filmed/directed and edited by Roman Bondarchuk bear no resemblance at all to anyone bearing the same title in the Wild West. But then that is hardly surprising as Stara Zburjivka their remote dilapidated village in Southern Ukraine bordering on to Crimea looks like time has…
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I Am Not Your Negro
When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself. This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted directly…
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Queen Mimi
When aspiring actor Yaniv Rokah got a part-time job as a barista in a coffee shop in Santa Monica he very quickly struck an unlikely friendship with Mimi a short sprightly octogenarian who worked at the Laundromat on the other side of Montana Avenue. Rokah became fascinated with this extraordinary colorful old lady who it turns…
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Peter And The Farm
Peter Dunning is an angry cantankerous old man. 68 years old, abandoned by his wife and adult children ‘they will not pick up the phone if I call,’ he lives alone working his 187 acre farm in rural Vermont. He is full of a mixture of bitterness and regret, that is occasionally peppered with his…
