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TANGERINES (MANDARIINID), 2013, 89 min. Dir. Zaza Urushadze. This poignant drama about shared humanity challenging artificial borders is set in Abkhazia during the 1990s, when the region was fighting to separate from Georgia. Old Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) and his neighbor Markus (Elmo Nüganen), who is determined to harvest his tangerine orchard, are about the only ones left in their village until two wounded soldiers - from opposite sides of the bloody conflict - wind up under Ivo’s roof. TO KILL A MAN (MATAR A UN HOMBRE), 2014, Film Factory, 82 min. Writer-director Alejandro Fernández Almendras’ powerful examination of a killing that challenges assumptions about what is justifiable earned the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. When his family is harassed by local thugs and the authorities prove ineffectual, mild-mannered forester Jorge (Daniel Candia) takes matters into his own hands.

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What is TANGERINES/TO KILL A MAN about?: TANGERINES (MANDARIINID), 2013, 89 min. Dir. Zaza Urushadze. This poignant drama about shared humanity challenging artificial borders is set in Abkhazia during the 1990s, when the region was fighting to separate from Georgia. Old Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) and his neighbor Markus (Elmo Nüganen), who is determined to harvest his tangerine orchard, are about the only ones left in their village until two wounded soldiers - from opposite sides of the bloody conflict - wind up under Ivo’s roof. TO KILL A MAN (MATAR A UN HOMBRE), 2014, Film Factory, 82 min. Writer-director Alejandro Fernández Almendras’ powerful examination of a killing that challenges assumptions about what is justifiable earned the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. When his family is harassed by local thugs and the authorities prove ineffectual, mild-mannered forester Jorge (Daniel Candia) takes matters into his own hands.