Sand and Sorrow (2007)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Paul Freedman

Writer:

Paul Freedman (writer)

Release Date:

December 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

A documentary about the events that led to the rise of Darfur's Arab-dominated government and the international community's "legacy of failure" to respond to the genocide carried out in the country. |

Plot Keywords:

Genocide | Darfur | Sudan

Cast

George Clooney	...	Narrator / Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ahmed Ali	...	Himself
Abdulrahman Al-Zuma	...	Himself
Hilary Benn	...	Himself
Oliver Bercault	...	Himself
Sabina Blay	...	Herself
Sam Brownback	...	Himself
Alex de Waal	...	Himself
Ahmed Ibrahim Diraige	...	Himself
Frieda Hyiramana	...	Herself
Major Mike Katukula	...	Himself
Nicholas Kristof	...	Himself
Alex Last	...	Himself
Leslie Lefkow	...	Himself
Hannah MacDonald	...	Herself
Riley MacDonald	...	Herself
Minni Minawi	...	Himself
Happy Mutesi	...	Herself
Barack Obama	...	Himself
Major Reuben Colince Ondoua	...	Himself
Samantha Power	...	Herself
John Prendergast	...	Himself
Gerard Prunier	...	Himself
Eric Reeves	...	Himself
Harry Reid	...	Himself
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis	...	Himself
Ken Silverstein	...	Himself
Adam Sterling	...	Himself
Speciose Uwamwezi	...	Herself
Elie Wiesel	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Darfur, Sudan

Company:

Amahoro

26 months

I saw this movie last Sunday at the Amnesty International Film Festival in Amsterdam and I'm still blown away by it. You watch it and you feel so tiny and dejected..because you know you'll go to your warm home in two hours without being able to do something for the millions of people (dead and alive) you are watching.

Paul Freedman did a wonderful job with this movie. Different people with very different views on Darfur are interviewed..sometimes with shocking ideas which make you really think.

This movie should definitely win a couple of awards because it is the truth. All fiction movies are blown away by this one.

26 months to make this documentary he said..what a great person! I hope his next movie will be about Somalia..a million displaced people and 20.000 more each months.. a country that is about to be swept off the map. Go Paul !