We Come as FriendsHubert Sauper
A sizzling and stunning documentary about globalization in a mythical-looking country, South Sudan. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hubert Sauper headed there with a tiny plane and records disconcerting and astonishing stories.
With a tiny self-built aircraft filmmaker Hubert Sauper ('Darwin's Nightmare') explores South Sudan. A relatively unknown country that looks like a mix of 'Out of Africa' and a Tarzan movie. The decades-long civil war has prevented any form of modernization. The lack of roads forces you to use a plane and the tribes live in huts made of mud and straw. Southern Sudan is an unexplored planet for capitalist explorers: a pristine area full of infinite resources and fertile land, with 'ignorant' locals as your only hindrance.
In this arena everything seems to converge in an almost surreal way. Illiterate warriors who for decades have defended their homeland, now sign contracts ending their ownership forever. Chinese build shiny high-tech compounds for oil and dump all their waste right outside the gate. Local politicians who want to modernize their country and foreign businessmen, politicians and missionaries who are happy to "help". You can see and taste economic globalization in all its nakedness and rawness. Sauper received an Oscar nomination for his previous disconcerting documentary "Darwin's Nightmare" and "We Come as Friends” has already won prizes at the Berlin Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.
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Directed by Hubert Sauper
France, Austria
110 min.
Arabic, Chinese
Subtitles: Dutch
Programme
Festival favorites*
credits
Director
Hubert Sauper
Producer
Hubert Sauper, Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Production company
Adelante Films, KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production
Cinematography
Hubert Sauper
Editing
Hubert Sauper, Cathie Dambel, Denise Vindevogel
Music
Slim Twig
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(beschikbaar vanaf 20.03)