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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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