Lost Children (2005)

Synopsis

For over 18 years the civil war in north Uganda started – nearly unnoticed by the world’s public.

The rebels of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla war, abducting children and forcing them to kill as soldiers among their own people.

“Lost Children” is a documentary film of four children aged between 8 and 14, who successfully escaped. They return home to be branded as killers.



Will they ever forget, will they be forgiven ? Can you be a child again after you have been a soldier?
Ali Samadi Ahadi and Oliver Stoltz visited the war zone in north Uganda for four times, to observe children who have escaped the bush camps of the rebels to see what happens when they try to reintegrate into their clans again.

Because both directors were confronted with war during their childhoods, they have purposely chosen the children`s perspective to tell. --Brooklyn Film Festival.

Berlinale (Panorama), Ghent

The film premiered in February 2005 at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it received the third place at PANORAMA Audience Award. The film was awarded in October 2005, the UNICEF Prize and the Youth Award and ran for more than two dozen international film festivals.

Lost Children was nominated for Deutschen Kamerapreis Köln Award in 2005 for Best Documentary and Deutscher Filmpreis in 2006 in the documentary category.

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Country: Germany
Language: English | Acholi
Color: Color
Runtime: 99 min.