War/Dance Theatrical Trailer

Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war, WAR/DANCE tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance competition, their historic journey to their nation's capital is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time in their lives.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• war
• dance
• trailer
• uganda
• acholi
• patongo
• documentary
• sean
• fine
• andrea
• nix

[xposeuganda]

I hope viewers learn to look beyond the propaganda and get the real story. There's no feel-good reality in Uganda right now, though this film approaches the simplistic formula of storytelling that Americans love so much.

Peace in Africa? Yes We Can!

[p1nkfl0yd]

Really? Black people can go to post-secondary school free just because of their skin colour? When did this happen?

The fact that you just compared discrimination against the Irish to slavery and genocide is not only offensive, but in the end laughable. Not to mention the fact that the first large waves of Irish emigration began just before slavery had finished, nearly 300 years after it began.

[liarliarjlp]

@xposeuganda it's true that it is extremely tough and horrifying in uganda, but we need movies like this to show that there is some hope or else the world is really shot to hell through and through

[kmj2000]

@idkitsyemii That was a hard scene to watch! This was a great film.

[mindqaugas]

Siunciam ! :)

[OliveYouMucho]

@BoEmery Wow..you're a fucking asshole. haha...Quite judging people you've never met and shut the fuck up!

[ViViD4i]

If this was played in school, i would go every day with a smile on my face, ready to discuss and talk about how the society is doing, how to help, etc. We need more movies like these, that help us understand the world a little better and the people in it, btw you can't stay quiet when they win the trophie, have to shoot your arms in the sky and go HELLLLL YEAH!!!

[idkitsyemii]

The scene where Nancy was crying over her father's grave broke me down

[dragonlaughing]

People don't realize that full scale genocide was practiced by the English against the Irish. My own clan once experienced a massacre of over a thousand. It was just much harder to murder the Irish before the English obtained guns.

[atyelarema]

jolly okot! i know her! (1:19) for all you invisible children supporters--this is "the bottle cap lady" who is basically the mother of IC. god. so beautiful.

[GayGeisha]

@motive440 Couldn't have put it better myself - I salute you!