Russian mercenaries are chasing one of the world’s most notorious fugitives: the warlord Joseph Kony, who abducted tens of thousands of children from across central Africa, brutalizing and brainwashing them as child soldiers and sex slaves in a decadeslong maelstrom of terror.
Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a bloody near-capture of Kony by Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, in a remote corner of the Central African Republic in early April. A social media post affiliated with Wagner also confirms some aspects of the group’s interest in the warlord.
Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a bloody near-capture of Kony by Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, in a remote corner of the Central African Republic in early April. A social media post affiliated with Wagner also confirms some aspects of the group’s interest in the warlord.
- 4/27/2024
- by Mac William Bishop
- Rollingstone.com
This harrowing documentary tells the story of Dominic Ongwen, conscripted into a brutal rebel army in Uganda and now indicted at the international criminal court for war crimes
Dominic Ongwen was nine when he was abducted from his village in northern Uganda and conscripted as a child soldier by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group led by Joseph Kony. As a boy, Ongwen was a victim, brutalised and brainwashed; in adulthood, he progressed up the ranks, becoming a feared Lra commander. This film follows his trial at the international criminal court, where he was convicted of 61 individual charges of murder, rape, sexual slavery, abduction and torture. Ongwen is the first former child soldier to be convicted by the court and one question raised by this documentary is how far is he morally responsible for his crimes?
It’s a tough watch, with some extremely harrowing moments. The documentary...
Dominic Ongwen was nine when he was abducted from his village in northern Uganda and conscripted as a child soldier by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group led by Joseph Kony. As a boy, Ongwen was a victim, brutalised and brainwashed; in adulthood, he progressed up the ranks, becoming a feared Lra commander. This film follows his trial at the international criminal court, where he was convicted of 61 individual charges of murder, rape, sexual slavery, abduction and torture. Ongwen is the first former child soldier to be convicted by the court and one question raised by this documentary is how far is he morally responsible for his crimes?
It’s a tough watch, with some extremely harrowing moments. The documentary...
- 2/26/2024
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Caviezel stars as the real-life campaigner Tim Ballard in a dull film that has become a US box office sensation
This peculiar film features a notably wooden lead performance from Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. It has become a US box office sensation and an explosive campaign document, a phenomenon similar in its way to the once hugely popular viral video Kony 2012, which demanded the fugitive Ugandan cult leader Joseph Kony be arrested. Sound of Freedom is about child sex trafficking, based on the reminiscences of anti-trafficking activist and campaigner Tim Ballard, and stars Caviezel as Ballard, who quits his job at a toothless US government agency to rescue a young girl from a Colombian sex-trafficking cartel.
All decent people share a fundamental horror and outrage at child sexual abuse. But not everyone will share Caviezel’s QAnon-type...
This peculiar film features a notably wooden lead performance from Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. It has become a US box office sensation and an explosive campaign document, a phenomenon similar in its way to the once hugely popular viral video Kony 2012, which demanded the fugitive Ugandan cult leader Joseph Kony be arrested. Sound of Freedom is about child sex trafficking, based on the reminiscences of anti-trafficking activist and campaigner Tim Ballard, and stars Caviezel as Ballard, who quits his job at a toothless US government agency to rescue a young girl from a Colombian sex-trafficking cartel.
All decent people share a fundamental horror and outrage at child sexual abuse. But not everyone will share Caviezel’s QAnon-type...
- 8/30/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Dogwoof has shared with Variety the trailer of “Theatre of Violence,” nominated in main competition at Cph:Dox, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, one of Europe’s biggest documentary events.
Shot over the course of six years, it follows the trial of Dominic Ongwen, the first former Ugandan child soldier to be convicted and sentenced by the International Criminal Court.
Abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (Lra) rebel group when he was just nine years old, Ongwen became himself a feared rebel commander. He was jailed for 25 years in 2021 on multiple counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including sexual slavery, torture, and rape.
Traveling between the Icc courtroom in The Hague and Uganda, in the footsteps of Ongwen’s defence lawyer, the charismatic Krispus Ayena, as he investigates the case and interviews witnesses, the film builds a nuanced portrait of a deeply complex story.
Directors Emil Langballe...
Shot over the course of six years, it follows the trial of Dominic Ongwen, the first former Ugandan child soldier to be convicted and sentenced by the International Criminal Court.
Abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (Lra) rebel group when he was just nine years old, Ongwen became himself a feared rebel commander. He was jailed for 25 years in 2021 on multiple counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including sexual slavery, torture, and rape.
Traveling between the Icc courtroom in The Hague and Uganda, in the footsteps of Ongwen’s defence lawyer, the charismatic Krispus Ayena, as he investigates the case and interviews witnesses, the film builds a nuanced portrait of a deeply complex story.
Directors Emil Langballe...
- 3/10/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
I First Got To Know retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, the Maga Republican candidate for Senate in New Hampshire, back when he was a soldier with a well-earned reputation for telling hard truths. I was writing a book about Operation Medusa, a hard 2006 campaign in southern Afghanistan that stopped a Taliban advance. Bolduc came across as a leader focused on his mission and men first, including spending the night on guard duty so his soldiers could sleep.
We crossed paths again in Afghanistan in 2009, and later in 2010, when I embedded...
We crossed paths again in Afghanistan in 2009, and later in 2010, when I embedded...
- 10/9/2022
- by Kevin Maurer
- Rollingstone.com
Films about young Africans trying to fulfill their dreams in the face of war, poverty, tradition and other forms of adversity have been submitted for Oscar consideration by three East African nations.
The selections by Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda to compete in the international feature film category reflect the relative youth of filmmaking in the region, which has never received an Academy Award nomination.
Ethiopia has chosen Jan Philipp Weyl’s “Running Against the Wind,” the story of two brothers whose lives take very different paths when they decide to follow their dreams – one to become an Olympic runner, the other a photographer. It features a cameo by gold medal-winning distance runner Haile Gebrselassie.
Shot in Ethiopia’s native language, Amharic, which Weyl speaks, the movie is an Ethiopian-German Co-Production produced by Negarit Film Academy & Productions and AC Independent Film in association with R&b Film. It’s Ethiopia’s...
The selections by Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda to compete in the international feature film category reflect the relative youth of filmmaking in the region, which has never received an Academy Award nomination.
Ethiopia has chosen Jan Philipp Weyl’s “Running Against the Wind,” the story of two brothers whose lives take very different paths when they decide to follow their dreams – one to become an Olympic runner, the other a photographer. It features a cameo by gold medal-winning distance runner Haile Gebrselassie.
Shot in Ethiopia’s native language, Amharic, which Weyl speaks, the movie is an Ethiopian-German Co-Production produced by Negarit Film Academy & Productions and AC Independent Film in association with R&b Film. It’s Ethiopia’s...
- 9/17/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Uganda has submitted T. Steve Ayeny's Kony: Order From Above for the international feature category at the 2020 Academy Awards, making the first ever submissions to the Oscars.
Inspired by true events, Kony: Order From Above tells a story of two teenagers, Otti and Aguti, who fall in love during the tumultuous Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in North Uganda.
Soon enough, Otti and Aguti get separated when Otti is abducted and unsuccessfully tries to escape.
Years later, Otti and Aguti meet again. By then, Otti has become Lra rebel leader Joseph Kony's favorite and most trusted soldier. Kony ...
Inspired by true events, Kony: Order From Above tells a story of two teenagers, Otti and Aguti, who fall in love during the tumultuous Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in North Uganda.
Soon enough, Otti and Aguti get separated when Otti is abducted and unsuccessfully tries to escape.
Years later, Otti and Aguti meet again. By then, Otti has become Lra rebel leader Joseph Kony's favorite and most trusted soldier. Kony ...
- 9/13/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Uganda has submitted T. Steve Ayeny's Kony: Order From Above for the international feature category at the 2020 Academy Awards, making the first ever submissions to the Oscars.
Inspired by true events, Kony: Order From Above tells a story of two teenagers, Otti and Aguti, who fall in love during the tumultuous Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in North Uganda.
Soon enough, Otti and Aguti get separated when Otti is abducted and unsuccessfully tries to escape.
Years later, Otti and Aguti meet again. By then, Otti has become Lra rebel leader Joseph Kony's favorite and most trusted soldier. Kony ...
Inspired by true events, Kony: Order From Above tells a story of two teenagers, Otti and Aguti, who fall in love during the tumultuous Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in North Uganda.
Soon enough, Otti and Aguti get separated when Otti is abducted and unsuccessfully tries to escape.
Years later, Otti and Aguti meet again. By then, Otti has become Lra rebel leader Joseph Kony's favorite and most trusted soldier. Kony ...
- 9/13/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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