Keswick Film Festival

Synopsis

In the tradition of Waltz with Bashir and Persepolis, this powerful documentary uses animation to bring home its message.

It is based on the book written by legendary Polish war correspondent Ryszard Kapuściński. It tells the story of a journalist, left to himself to write a feature story on the civil war in Angola on the advent of its regaining independence in 1975. Kapuściński is an idealist, a friend to lost causes and revolutions. Although he had been to many front lines before, Angola was to change him forever. He left for Angola as a reporter to come back as a writer.