Afrikas - Was machen die Schmerzen?

"I'm starting a journey. It's not a road movie, and not a piece of investigative journalism, but the sights and sounds of ordinary pains in Africa. A subjective journey, through my wishes, but also my fears. Reassure yourself, I won't try to make you feel bad." With these words Depardon begins his almost three-hour long, beautiful, moving, revealing, and above all sincere, cinematographic diary about Africa. His journey begins on top of a hill on the Cape of Good Hope in the South African winter month of July, takes us through dozens of countries, landscapes, situations,... and ends in the courtyard of his parental home, a French farm in Villefranche-sur-Saone. Depardon sets his camera down and looks around, carefully, precisely. Fixed frames are alternated with shots where he lets his camera pan a full 360 degrees. Slowly the landscape, the situation unfolds. To grasp something of the complexity you need time. Depardon avoids easy solutions, the collection of sound-bites, the spectacular, the clichés. (One World)