A modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into 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, the clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. The director of Darwin’s Nightmare takes us on this voyage in his tiny, self-made flying machine out of tin and canvas, leading us into the most improbable locations and into people’s thoughts and dreams, in both stunning and heartbreaking ways. Chinese oil workers, UN peacekeepers, Sudanese warlords, and American evangelists ironically all find common ground in this documentary.
We Come as Friends
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- Direction: Hubert Sauper
- Script: Hubert Sauper
- Cinematography: Hubert Sauper, Barney Broomfield
- Editing: Hubert Sauper, Cathie Dambel, Denise Vindevogel
- Sound: Veronika Hlawatsch
- Music: Slim Twig
- Production: Adelante Films, Austria & KGP, Austria
- Producers: Hubert Sauper, Gabriele Kranzelbinder
- Format: DCP Color
- Production Country: France-Austria
- Production Year: 2014
- Duration: 110΄
- Contact: Le Pacte, France
- Awards/Distinctions: Peace Film Prize – Berlinale IFF 2014, Germany, Special Jury Prize – Sundance IFF 2014, USA, Wild Dreamer Award – Subversive FF 2014, Croatia, Millennium Award – 11 Planete + Doc Film FF 2014, Poland Honorable Mention – Bergen IFF 2014, Norway, Between the Seas (Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film) – Jihlava IFF, Czech Republic, Best Documentary – Vienna IFF 2004, Austria
Supporting Director: Xavier Liebard
Hubert Sauper
He was born in Kitzbuhel, a town in Tyrol, Austrian Alps. His father, Anton Hubertus Sauper is a writer and painter. Maria, his mother, is a passionate singer and works occasionally on humanitarian missions in the Balkans. He has lived in the UK, Italy, the USA, and for the past twenty years in France. He studied film directing in Vienna (University of Performing Arts) and in Paris (University Paris VIII). His thesis Film as Testament, a study of the three last films of the directors Cyril Collard, Andrey Tarkovsky and Joris Ivens, was published in Vienna. He teaches Film in Europe and the USA. The last two documentaries he wrote and directed were awarded twelve international film prizes. As an actor, he has appeared in several shorts and two feature length films: In the Circle of the Iris (1992) by Peter Patzak and Blue Distance (1994) by Peter Schreiner.
Filmography
1993 On the Road with Emil (short)
1994 Also schlafwandle ich am hellichten Tage/ So i Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight (fiction)
1995 Lomographer's moscow (short)
1998 Kisangani tagebuch/ Kisangani Diary
2001 Seules avec nos histoires/ Alone with Our Stories
2004 Darwin’s nightmare
2014 We Come as friends
