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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #72. Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

Published on February 24, 2014

We Come as Friends

Director: Hubert Sauper
Producers: Hubert Sauper, Gabriele Kranzelbinder
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Winner of a Special World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for Cinematic Bravery and our writer Caitlin’s Best of Fest, we finally found out why the second part in Hubert Sauper’s proposed trilogy took a good decade to literally get “off the ground”. Such as his brilliant Darwin’s Nightmare (2004), We Come as Friends sees the filmmaker drop out from the sky, offering an in-your-face view of modern colonialism.

Gist: “We Come As Friends” is a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent’s biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old ‘civilizing’ pathology re-emerges – that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources.

Release Date: Had its world premiere screening at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, this should continue showing up at further docu-fests.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).