The Jilhava  documentary festival honors Hubert Sauper’s WE COME AS FRIENDS as  Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film.

The jury statement
„Hubert Sauper“, stated the jury, „is a fly in the storm of Africa’s supposed development. He rides the chaos with daring, conviction and persistence, using his curiosity to show the competition of claims and interests now vying for the world’s youngest country, and his privilege as an alien in Africa to unmask the true face of that privilege. WE COME AS FRIENDS embodies its maker and his methods: it is reportage cinema at its most fleet, mischievous, provocative, compassionate and plaintive.“

 

WE COME AS FRIENDS

directed by Hubert Sauper

(KGP KRanzelbinder Gabriele Productions, Adelante Films (F))

International sales: Le Pacte

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 devided into two nations, an old 'civilizing' pathology reemerges – that of of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources.