War/Dance
- Title: War/Dance
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The film tells the tales of three children – Nancy, Dominic, and Rose – from the Acholi tribe in the Pantongo region of northern Uganda. These children live in a refugee camp among 60,000 other members of their tribe, displaced by a violent terrorist group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army. Each has harrowing tales of tragedy to tell.
As the film opens these children, along with many others from the camp, are training and working towards winning the national dance competition in the town of Kampala. This is the first time a primary school from a camp such as this has earned a spot in the final competition and the children hope to do honor to their tribe and bring a trophy home.
The documentary from Sean Fine and Andrea Nix does many things well including capturing the look and feel of the various settings in the film from the camp, to the open bush, to Kampala. Facts and statistics are also inserted throughout the film in way that doesn’t make them seem forced or distracting.
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