Underplayed Gems

Ikland (2011)

Ikland poster
Directed by
Cevin Soling
Genre
documentary film, adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A documentary crew travels to a remote mountainous region of northeastern Uganda to meet the Ik people. The film examines an earlier anthropologist's harsh characterization of the Ik by talking with them directly.

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What happens

Ikland is a 2011 documentary film about a journey through the mountains of northeastern Uganda, along the Kenyan border, toward an encounter with the Ik. Ikland was produced by Cevin Soling, and directed by Soling and Hilbert David. The Ik were described in anthropologist Colin Turnbull's 1972 work The Mountain People as callous and indifferent. Ikland follows the documentary makers as they meet with the Ik, and revisits Turnbull's description in the context of local circumstances. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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