Lost Children

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Movie
Original title Lost Children
Country of production Germany
original language Acholi , English
Publishing year 2005
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ali Samadi Ahadi ,
Oliver Stoltz
script Ali Samadi Ahadi,
Oliver Stoltz
production Oliver Stoltz
music Ali N. Askin
camera Maik Behres
cut Ali Samadi Ahadi

Lost Children is a documentary by the directors Ali Samadi Ahadi and Oliver Stoltz , which was filmed in Uganda in 2003/2004 and shows the fate of some children in the conflict between Ugandan government troops and the rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

Origin and content

The shooting ran in three phases in September 2003 and between January and May 2004 over a total of ten weeks. For this purpose, the producers interviewed a total of around 30 children in a reception camp in Pajule in northern Uganda, around 40 kilometers from the border with Sudan , which is operated by Caritas Gulu . All children had previously managed to escape from the army of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army ), in whose service they served as child soldiers or as sex objects and in many cases were forced to carry out brutal murders and other serious human rights violations. During the shooting, Ahadi and Stoltz focused on the fates of the four children Richard Kilama, Jennifer Akelo, Francis Ochaya and Vincent Opio, as well as on the work of two Caritas employees, Grace Arach and John Bosco, who are helping to reintegrate into the camp.

Reviews

Critics praised the careful handling of the tough topic, which represents the suffering of those affected without showing it off.

Awards

The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2005 and was awarded third place in the PANORAMA audience award.

The film received the UNICEF Prize and the Youth Award in October 2005 and was screened at more than two dozen international film festivals.

Lost Children was nominated in 2005 for the German Camera Prize Cologne in the category of best documentary film.

German Film Prize 2006 in the documentary category.

Lost Children was shown in German cinemas on November 3, 2005.

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