With its handsome widescreen cinematography, its photogenic human subjects and its captivating assortment of farm animals , The Ark is a warm, inviting documentary . That would perhaps make it unremarkable if it weren’t also the case that Green Grove Farm, the auspiciously named homestead at its center, is situated in war-torn Ukraine .

With one eye on the ever-encroaching conflict, directors Jeremy Chilnick and Viacheslav Rakovskyi manage to maintain a mostly lighthearted mood as they follow the owners of that farm, a couple of former urbanites whose sense of rural community takes on a new scope as they open their property, and their hearts, to animals abandoned and injured in the midst of war.

With its handsome widescreen cinematography, its photogenic human subjects and its ca

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