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Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
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| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff Vice[Dominic Fine's] camera captures beautiful Ugandan locations -- and some equally beautiful character moments. The film ends on a surprisingly upbeat note. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxDocumentary filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine found an ingenious way to tell their story in a film that is as unflinching as it is uplifting. |
| Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneThe mechanics of Spellbound transplanted to the site of Ugandan civil slaughter becomes a testament to human renewal. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsWar/Dance complicates documentary tradition, trying to express events that seem beyond expression. |
| CinerinaKarina MontgomeryA truly beautiful tribute to the redemptive powers of art, music, and dance, and the insidious destructiveness that trickles down in war to the most innocent of victims. Please see it. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekThe film's artsy surface diminishes its impact [but] tells a story that needs to be told repeatedly. |
| Toronto StarPhilip Marchand'The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places,' Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms. That statement might stand as the summation of this documentary, which celebrates the strength of winsome, broken children. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThis War/Dance is among the most affecting films I've seen all year; it cuts to the core of being and gives individual faces to sorrow and to hope. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanThis wonderful doco is heartbreaking and heartwarming by turns |
| I.E. WeeklyAmy NicholsonBecause no one dares to call a film about suffering children boring, Fine and Nix slack on analysis and investigation and concentrate on gorgeous saturated cinematography |