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Iran · 2001
1h 24m
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Starring
Genre Documentary

Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami documents his experience with resilient children left orphaned by the Ugandan Civil War and AIDS crisis. This film highlights both the universal nature playful nature of childhood, as well as the extreme adversity facing women and children in Uganda.

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90

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Beyond giving a human face to Uganda's crises, Kiarostami attempts to capture the actual place, a swirl of contradictions as vibrant and beautiful as it is troubled.

50

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

This slight but insinuating documentary by Abbas Kiarostami...will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker.

50

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.

80

Variety by Scott Foundas

Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a "poetic cinema" indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.

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