Hungry Hill
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1h 21m
“Hungry Hill,” filmed on Ireland’s Beara Peninsula, chronicles a community of sheep farmers negotiating a rugged landscape, globalization, and societal change. Central is three generations of co-director Vanmechelen’s family, who left their Belgian polder farm due to pollution from a nuclear plant and pharmaceutical industry. Archival media weaves their past plight with their present Irish reality.
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