Flight of a Bullet: A nailbiting 80 minute single take of a documentary

Perhaps the biggest surprise of this year’s Open City Documentary Festival – a five-day, under-the-radar gem situated in the heart of London, and dedicated to championing nonfiction work as an art – was that my favorite film of the fest actually ended up taking top prize. Beata Bubenec’s Flight of a Bullet never garnered the sort of buzz during its premiere at True/False that it did over in Europe. (Thankfully, perhaps, as the Russian director faced not only death threats, but also protests and a gas attack by ultra-nationalists when it showed at Moscow’s Artdocfest).

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