Lise Pedersen Vying for the top prize at Swiss international doc film festival Visions du Réel, Gregoris Rentis’ debut feature “Dogwatch” is a stunning, stylized triptych that follows the stories of mercenaries Yorgos, Costa and Victor.
All three work as private guards hired by ships crossing the so-called High Risk Area of the Somali coastline to protect their cargo from pirates.
But what was a necessity in the late 2000s no longer makes sense a decade later due to the steady drop in attacks from pirates.
The resulting absurdity of their ongoing training and presence on land and at sea transpires through this film laced with slapstick comedy moments infused with hyper-charged masculinity.
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