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Flight of a Bullet
Russia, Latvia, 2017 (80 min.)
Across a single unbroken take, Flight of a Bullet captures the ethical minefield of documentary filmmaking within the quickly changing contexts of a conflict zone. Director Beata Bubenec took 400 hours of footage during two weeks embedded with the Ukrainian volunteer military group Aidar Battalion in the hotly contested Donbas region. Suspecting that a Ukrainian man who questions the director’s right to be filming is a separatist, the group — against Bubenec’s wishes — capture and interrogate him. From the fast-paced capture and tense interrogation to the mundane aspects of battalion life, this documentary provides a unique insight into the role of the eyewitness.
“Notable for being a war doc in which the war is an off-camera character – ever-present but never front-and-center,”
—Lauren Wissot, Global Comment
“In many ways the finished film is also about the vulnerability of being the only woman surrounded by men.”
—Beata Bubenec


DIRECTED BY
Beata Bubenec
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In Russian with English subtitles
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