Those Shocking Shaking Days

Those Shocking Shaking Days

2016 · 88 min · ★ 6.3 · 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.

Directed by Selma Doborac · Written by Selma Doborac

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