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Synopsis

Darwin's Nightmare is a tale about humans between the North and South, about globilization and about fish.

Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world.

Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo... Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent. This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.

Nomintaed for Best Documentary at this years Oscars, this film is not to be missed.

Film Information

• Genre: Documentary
• Director: Hubert Sauper
• Written By: Hubert Sauper
• Running Time: 107 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: Not Rated
• Language: English
• Official Site

Reviews

"DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE is a film that demands to be seen. In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege."

   - Ernest Hardy, LA Weekly

"Filmmaker Sauper put himself in harm's way numerous times to get so inside the situation, and the intimacy of his technique, his willingness to avoid hectoring voice-overs and simply talk quietly with his subjects, adds compelling believability."

   - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"Mr. Sauper has produced an extraordinary work of visual journalism, a richly illustrated report on a distant catastrophe that is also one of the central stories of our time."

   - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE strings together cruel ironies into a work of harrowing lucidity. It illuminates the sinister logic of a new world order that depends on corrupt globalization to put an acceptable face on age-old colonialism."

   - Dennis Lim, Village Voice

"Sauper's delicately horrific documentary is a short, sharp slap in the face of the developed world, and a long overdue one at that."

   - Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

Showtimes

• Tuesday, March 21st
  7:00 pm, 9:30 pm
• Wednesday, March 22nd
  7:00 pm, 9:30 pm