As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.
sah reviewed We Come as Friends (2014)
We Come as Friends
A little uninteresting because of timing; Things are just beginning to change in South Sudan--for better or for worse--probably for the worse; The film gets in on the ground floor but would have been more interesting if the doc was made a few years later to see how things play out