War Dance

Nominated for best documentary at the 2008 Academy Awards, War/Dance tells the story of a group of Ugandan students from the Acholi tribe who win a place in the finals of a national dance competition, despite living under siege in a war zone. Co-director Sean Fine, who served as cinematographer, spent three months in Patongo, observing the participants as they prepared for the big event and getting close enough to the kids to have three of them trust him with their own dreadful stories.

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