ABC AFRICA - DVD ( ABC Africa )

ABC AFRICA - DVD (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: ABC Africa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
000 min

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Iran ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Abbas Kiarostami

Written By:
Abbas Kiarostami

Actors:
Abbas Kiarostami ..... Self
Seifollah Samadian ..... Self

Synopsis:

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Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, travel to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their camera captures and caresses the faces of a thousand children - all orphans - whose parents have died of AIDS. Recording tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death, the film attests to Africa's sunny resilience in the face of so much suffering and disease.

Documentary. Uganda, March 2000. At the request of United Nation's
International Fund for Agricultural Development, director and photographer
spent ten days recording on DV camera the faces of one thousand children,
orphaned by AIDS. The result attests to Africa's 'sunny resistance' to so much
suffering and disease. (Synopsis)

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 04 September, 2025.