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Ukraines fight for freedoms attention to detail has garnered it an oscar nomination. While it boasts an enormous amount of footage from the conflict that erupted between protesters and the police, it ignores or omits the repercussions and geopolitical narrative of these disturbing events. In 1950s italy, a farmers dream of improving workers living conditions collapses when he falls for a landowners daughter. The documentary winter on fire brings you the story of ukraines fight for freedom from the frontlines of the 2014 uprising. Its an unfair thing to demand of any film that it has to live up to the standard of some other specific film, i concede, and.