Donkeymentary (2009)

directed by Vardan Hovhannisyan and Arman Yeritsyan

 

“The daily strains of old age disappear as elderly residents and a robot within an Armenian Soviet-era retirement home lose themselves in staging the timeless world of Shakespeare”

 

Lamu is a small island off the Kenyan coast with 24,000 people and 6,000 donkeys. It is also one of the world’s only surviving centers of authentic Swahili culture. Here, donkeys are a part of daily life and the key to earning a living.

Donkeymentary follows the life of a young boy whose fondest dream is to one day have a donkey of his own.