Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas (2017)

Directed by

Joakim Demmer

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, Sweden

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

10

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows foreign investors buying up land in Ethiopia for farming. It shows how this forces local people off their land and leads to protests and violence.

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What happens

Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas, is a 2017 Swedish-Ethiopian documentary thriller film directed by Joakim Demmer and co-produced by Margarete Jangård for WG Film, Heino Deckert for ma.ja.de, and John Webster for JW Documentaries. The film revolves around farmland, the new green gold in Ethiopia, where foreign investors take control of millions of hectares of allegedly unused land, spurring massive forced evictions of local populations and violent repression of protest and resistance. The film was shot in and around Addis Ababa, Bale Province and Gambela in Ethiopia; New York City, Austin Texas and Washington in the USA and the Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan. The film made its World Premiere at CPH:DOX 2017 in the United States. The film received mixed reviews from critics and made official selection at many film festivals. In the Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest) 2017, the film was nominated for the Viktor Award for DOK.horizons and then for Environmental Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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