Semaan's life on his farm in a small village in the Lebanese mountains is just as slow-paced as this documentary.

The topic is interesting – the area saw its residents displaced and the village destroyed during the civil war that raged in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990.

The film shows how the former inhabitants, who are all related to each other, visit to tend their plots of land.

However, they all leave again in the evenings and go to their homes elsewhere – apart from Semaan. He's the only one who returned there for good.

He's an engaging character who chats away to the camera and to his animals as he goes about life on the farm.

Although the depiction of a man who found inner peace after such turmoil is beautifully shot and informative of a different way of life, I'm afraid I found it dull and far too long at 86 minutes.

Minutes on end show nothing more than Semaan feeding his cows, drinking coffee, digging his car out of the snow and fetching bales of hay.

This may be the right film for those who like gentle and whimsical reflections on life, places and people but I'm afraid it was not for me.

However, it's won awards at a range of festivals across Europe as well as the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, with other reviewers describing it as "gripping" and "powerful" so I must be missing something.

'The One Man Village', Tradewinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, 6.15 p.m. tomorrow.