Screening: War Games
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Date: March 26, 2007 12:00 AM
War Games is the story of a community's struggle to stage its own Olympic Games in Southern Sudan - a few miles from the frontline of Africa's longest-running civil war.
The film follows an impoverished Dinka community as they struggle to stage a 'bootleg olympics' for thousands of children, many of whom walk for days to reach the venue - an old airstrip in the middle of the bush in war-torn southern Sudan.
The spirit of the people is perhaps best captured by the head coach and organiser, Akel Mokot: "Even if we are in a war, and we are not a part of the world, one day we shall be a part of the world."
Tags for this entry: Africa, conflict, Sudan, War Games
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