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Los dioses de verdad tienen huesos (2010)

Los dioses de verdad tienen huesos poster
Directed by
Belén Santos, David Alfaro
Genre
documentary film
Country
Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Spain
Runtime
1h 30m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary follows children with serious illnesses in Guinea-Bissau who need to be evacuated for medical treatment. It shows how bureaucracy and political instability make an already desperate situation even harder.

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What happens

Los dioses de verdad tienen huesos (Les dieux ont vraiment des os) est un film documentaire espagnol réalisé en 2010. La vie n’est pas simple en Guinée-Bissau, l’un des pays les plus pauvres du monde. Les enfants atteints de graves maladies doivent être évacués pour sauver leur vie. Mais la bureaucratie et l’instabilité politique – un jour, le président et le chef des armées sont assassinés et tout le pays se retrouve paralysé – rendent particulièrement difficiles ces démarches. En Afrique, les choses les plus faciles sont difficiles et l’impossible devient simple. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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