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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