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Review: ‘Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas’

by Antastasia Akulinina
November 16, 2017
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Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas (Sweden/Germany/Finland, 80min.) Dir. Joakim Demmer   Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas confronts and redefines the conventional Western understanding of international development by examining the toll this practice

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