Asheville Film Festival
- Darwin’s Nightmare
- Director: Hubert Sauper
Documentary. 2004. Austria/Belgium. 107 min. English/Russian/Swahili, Subtitled.
Academy Award Nominee: Best Documentary Feature
Hubert Sauper's film – called "a work of art" by A.O. Scott of the New York Times – is a clear-eyed examination of globalization, utilizing a series of events at Lake Victoria in Tanzania as a microcosm. The documentary focuses on two relentless killing machines: the Nile Perch, which ate through everything that used to live in the lake, and the foreign capitalists who introduced the fish in order to sell it to European consumers. Ultimately, the Tanzanians who once supported themselves off the lake's bounty have lost the ability to maintain their livelihood. This is a tale about fish, globalization, and about people divided by cultural and economic differences.
- Showings
Friday, January 20 at 8pm – UNC Asheville: Humanities Lecture Hall