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In We Come as Friends, director Hubert Sauper (“Darwin’s Nightmare”) answers this question: “You can’t.” Without context-providing titles or expert talking heads, and with only intermittent poetic narration, Sauper presents Africa as another planet and the foreign superpowers, particularly China and the United States, as interstellar conquerors. In this article we focus on the analysis of a 2014 Austrian–French documentary We come as friends (110 min), written, directed, and produced by Hubert Sauper. “We Come as Friends” is a personal triumph for Herbert Sauper in his making what must have been an often frightening journey. As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. Trailer. A modern odyssey, a science fiction–like journey in a tiny homemade flying machine into the heart of Africa. Synopsis. Movies like We Come As Friends 2014 Movie. Watch for FREE. It is described by Sauper as “a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa”. Sign In. In 2016 I curated, ordinated and chaired the screening series and public seminar "We Come As Friends: Colonial Pathologies in the African Continent" (Document Film Festival, CCA Glasgow - 21-23 October, 2016). Rent/Buy. 110min. "We Come As Friends" is a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the the heart of Africa. We Come As Friends grows increasingly hopeless, contrasting the alien paradise of the opening with the wastelands that resemble corporate dump sites, which isn’t too far from the literal truth, and cumulates in an interview with an old man who was tricked by American officials into signing away barely quantifiable amounts of land and resources for a paltry 25,000 American dollars. Review: The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020) We come as Friends intends to illustrate colonisation as a human phenomenon in an explicit manner as well as in a metaphoric sense without suggesting simplified accusations or political propositions. Rotten Tomatoes™ 97% 63%. This could have been a documentary on its own. Verified Purchase. Academy Award® nominated director Hubert Sauper’s We Come As Friends is a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. In this article we focus on the analysis of a 2014 Austrian– French documentary We come as friends (110 min), written, directed, and produced by Hubert Sauper. "We Come As Friends" begins and ends with an unidentified speaker rhetorically asking "Did you know that the moon belongs to the white man? We Come as Friends (Unrated, 110 minutes). We Come As Friends Office mural for We Come As Friends. We often jump to a new scene without understanding what we're looking at. Record Series. His Oscar-nominated Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) tracked ecological disasters in Tanzania caused by world market pressures. Movies like. 109. It is not so much a matter of foreign nations taking control as of corporations manipulating, exploiting, and corrupting the systems and governments. Play. We Come as Friends is a documentary to looks at what is happening in South Sudan (beginning before it became the world’s newest nation and continuing through its independence) and the new face that colonialism has taken. We come as friends is a documentary about a corporate, polycentric, contemporary colonization of South Sudan. Play. Think of flying thousands of miles in a homemade machine not that different from airplanes of 100 years ago. Documentary. WeComeAsFriends is the joint venture between LuckyTree and BonPlan. Academy Award® nominated director Hubert Sauper’s WE COME AS FRIENDS is a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. We Come as Friends. Lumiere Awards, France 2016 Nominee Lumiere Award: Best Documentary Hubert Sauper (director) San Francisco International Film Festival 2014 Nominee Golden Gate Award: Best Documentary Feature Hubert Sauper: Sundance Film Festival 2014 … Panellists: Dr. Rebecca Hubert Sauper Hubert Sauper Hubert Sauper (2015) Filmmaker Hubert Sauper examines how colonialism, war and business contribute to the exploitation of South Sudan. Academy Award® nominated director Hubert Sauper's WE COME AS FRIENDS is a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. Watch for FREE. More. Sobering look at the strife and conflict in Sudan caused by greedy corporate interests and religious fanatics, both Christian and Muslim. Sign In. 4. 71 Resume. Buy. Add to list See details. | Genre: Africa, Documentaries. 0 Dislike. In We Come as Friends, we see converts receiving solar-powered radio Bibles enabling them to hear the word of God in the remotest of regions. Hubert Sauper. We Come as Friends completes his observant trilogy. It is described by Sauper as “a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa”. Subscribe. Directed by. We Come As Friends takes pains to portray the arbitrary borderlines and namesakes handed down from previous generations of colonizers, simultaneously acknowledging and - in its best moments - deconstructing the privilege of its own undeniably Western perspective. 0 Meh. “We Come as Friends” is a visceral journey into how colonialism, globalization and corruption have spoiled much of Africa. March Around the World 2018: South Sudan From the opening voiceover that encourages you to consider Africa as another planet to the arial shots of the landscape at dizzying, even nauseating angles, We Come as Friends is a film meant to disorient you. We Come as Friends (2014) We Come as Friends. We Come as Friends Par Hubert Sauper. Synopsis. more. Running time: 105 min. 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