Concerning Violence

Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson

Release Year: 2014

Running time: 89

Country: U.S., Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Africa (region)

Genres: Historic Drama, Documentary, Culture, Sundance Film Festival

Subjects: Human Rights, K-12, European History, African Studies

Synopsis

Directed by: Göran Hugo Olsson

Cast: Robert Mugabe, Tonderai Makoni, AmÃlcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara

Crew: Lauryn Hill, Tobias Janson, Annika Rogell

From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

Reviews & Awards

Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2014, World Cinema Documentary Competition
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2014, Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary
Berlin 64th International Film Festival 2014, Panorama Section