Those Shocking Shaking Days
★ 6.3 · 2016 · 88m · Documentary
Experimental filmmaker Selma Doborac presents a radical and uncompromising essay on the impossibility of depicting the atrocities of war through insightful subtitles and meditative footage of abandoned structures that belong to the present as well as to the past.
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