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War Dance

The war stole everything, except their music.

2007 · 1h 45m · PG-13 Documentary, Music, War
Directed by Sean Fine , Andrea Nix

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Overview

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.

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85%
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Fresh

It is wonderful to watch this joyous slice of the cultural lives of these victimized, traumatized children struggling to survive and build a better life in a desperately troubled part of the world.

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Fresh

This film offers a child's perspective on the ravages and complexity of war and is also a convincing testament to the healing power of creative expression.

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
Fresh

'The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places,' Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms. That statement might stand as the summation of this documentary, which celebrates the strength of winsome, broken children.

Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
Fresh

The horror and heartwarming [is] equally compounded.

Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

War/Dance is the sort of documentary that's meant to appall us, to shake us out of our uninformed complacency. And yet there are moments in the film that may make an audience uncomfortable in ways the Fines may not have intended.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

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