War / Dance

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Movie
Original title War / Dance
Country of production United States
original language English
acholi
Publishing year 2007
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Sean Fine
Andrea Nix Fine
script Sean Fine
Andrea Nix Fine
production Albie Hecht
music Ash & Spencer
camera Sean Fine
cut Jeff Consiglio

War / Dance is an American documentary film from 2007. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine tell the story of three Ugandan children who want to take part in a music festival.

action

The film focuses on 14 year old Dominic, 13 year old Rose, and 12 year old Nancy of the Acholi tribe . The children live in the Patongo refugee camp in northern Uganda. Dominic says that soldiers from the Lord's Resistance Army forced him to kill farmers with a garden hoe. Rose says that the children hide in the camp when the LRA soldiers come to abduct children. She reports that one day after the soldiers left, she and her siblings found their mother's head in a saucepan. Nancy tells how people live in the camp and tells of hunger, thirst and people who don't even have clothes. All three find solace in music. Dominic plays the xylophone , Rose sings in the choir and Nancy dances. The school in the refugee camp receives an invitation to a music and dance festival in the capital Kampala . Dominic, Rose and Nancy are allowed to go there and perform. The transport of the children to the capital, 200 miles away, is guarded by soldiers. The filmmakers show the highlight of the festival and the performance of the children from Patongo.

Reviews

Philip Marchand wrote in the Toronto Star : "'The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are stronger in the broken places," wrote Hemingway in In Another Land . This sentence can be used as a summary of this documentation that celebrates the strength of these winning, broken children. "

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Marchand: War / Dance: Robbed of Childhood , article on thestar.com of February 22, 2008, accessed January 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2007 Awards on sundance.org, accessed January 17, 2013.