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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #6. Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

Published on January 16, 2013

We Come as Friends

Director: Hubert Sauper
Producer(s): Sauper and Gabriele Kranzelbinder (Museum Hours)
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Among my top documentary films of the past decade, Darwin’s Nightmare hit hard. It stung on a cerebral and basic gut level. Almost a decade later, Hubert Sauper decides that we need a part two in an eventual trilogy. I’m all in.

Gist: Entente Cordiale intends to illustrate colonization as a human phenomenon in an explicit manner as well as in a metaphoric sense without suggesting simplified accusations or political propositions. It will not be a historical film since colonization as well as slave trade are still happening today – in a modified way, a more industrial, massive and more global fashion than a hundred years ago.

Release Date: Darwin was receive at Venice back in 2004, Sauper could easily return there for a world premiere, but Cannes might also be of interest.

Related Topics:Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Hubert Sauper, Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013, We Come as Friends

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).