Is this man's cheese Russia's greatest hope?

Directed by Ben Garfield · Starring Oleg Sirota, Sergey Nedorezov, Sergey Goncharenko, Igor Brukh · 2016

Oleg Sirota, a Russian cheesemaker, bets everything on filling a cheese shortage caused by Western sanctions, which raises questions about ambition, profit and nationalism.

An offbeat, conflicted portrait of a dreamer cashing in on geopolitics, one wheel of cheese at a time.

Oleg Sirota is a Russian man who’s taking advantage of a cheese shortage brought on by sanctions. London-based director Ben Garfield’s says his documentary presents a conflicting case - "There’s an instinct to support a

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