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.
War Dance
The war stole everything, except their music.
2007 · 1h 45m · PG-13
Documentary, Music, War
Directed by
Sean Fine
,
Andrea Nix
Overview
Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
'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.
The horror and heartwarming [is] equally compounded.
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.
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