Checkpoint Zoo (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Joshua Zeman. English/Ukrainian/Russian-language Documentary. In the early months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a team of Kharkiv zookeepers and volunteers risk their lives to evacuate thousands of animals from the Feldman Ecopark, trapped in a combat zone between Ukraine and Russia.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, and vulgar expressions
• Frequent references to war, death and dying - some detail
• Infrequent depictions of emotional distress and mourning, some involving a child in the context of war - some detail
• Infrequent depictions of animals in distress and animal corpses - little blood or detail
• Infrequent depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Life during wartime
• The protection of animals
• Sacrifice and teamwork

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for mature subject matter and coarse language

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