Trenches

[Plays 5/18 at 9:15 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] Loup Bureau's award-winning, black-and-white, timely, down-to-earth, slow-paced, 85-minute, 2021 documentary in which Cairo-based French journalist Loup Bureau documents the mundane, dangerous, day-to-day existence of courageous, cigarette-smoking Ukrainian soldiers, including Koyla, Andy, Slava, Grich, and Pachtiete, who have been digging, living, and valiantly fighting in the trenches against Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of Ukraine since 2014 and ironically play video war games on their computers to kill the time and dream of returning to life back home where they can fish, socialize, and date.
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