Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, travel to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their camera captures and caresses the faces of a thousand children - all orphans - whose parents have died of AIDS. Recording tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death, the film attests to Africa's sunny resilience in the face of so much suffering and disease.... (Full plot summary below)
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Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, travel to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their camera captures and caresses the faces of a thousand children - all orphans - whose parents have died of AIDS. Recording tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death, the film attests to Africa's sunny resilience in the face of so much suffering and disease.
Leave your thoughts about ABC Africa.
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. NesbitKiarostami profoundly displays Uganda's life and culture through his touristy pictures, as deceptively simple as the alphabet |
| Paste MagazineRobert DavisDespite the locale, ABC Africa is both new and familiar for those who know Kiarostami, and it's a great introduction for those who don't. |
| eye WEEKLYJason AndersonThe rich and surprising series of 'impressions' that comprise ABC Africa celebrate the orphans' resilience and, even amid such destitution, the richness of human experience. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonUnexpectedly humane and lovely and not at all preachy. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanThis slight but insinuating documentary by Abbas Kiarostami...will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekSo muddled, repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA heart-wrenching documentary about the 1.6 million orphans in Uganda whose parents died of AIDS. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn upbeat personal film telling in an amiable touristy way the story of the Ugandan orphans. |
| BBC.comJamie RussellHelps to remind the First World that HIV/AIDS is far from being yesterday's news. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA movie of seemingly limpid transparency and tremendous, understated compassion. |
