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“In 1996, I was staying in the town of Mankien in Southern Sudan, filming the war. At the time, I thought that doing a film on a region in the throes of conflict was a political act. Once I was there, the reality of it struck me as different from what I had imagined. The war I saw around me was not only a struggle between an oppressive government and oppressed minorities, it was a long simmering conflict driven by economic and power interests. Back in Belgium, I went into a funk of feeling powerless and disgusted by it all, to the point that I never showed the footage to anyone until now. A while ago, I heard there had been a massacre in Mankien orchestrated by the government in Khartoum and probably supported by Western oil companies. I realized that most of the men and women I had filmed had lost their lives. Closed District is about the war in Southern Sudan, but more than that, it is about war in general and the death and suffering that often result. It also questions the role of the film.”

Belgium - 2004 - 55 mn - HI8 - Black & white

Director Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd Camera Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd Sound Frédéric Fontaine Editing Hervé Brindel

Production Gsara Productions, 26, rue du Marteau, 1210 Bruxelles, Belgique Tél : +32 2 218 5885 Fax : +32 2 217 2902 E-mail : production@gsara.be Co-Production Ateliers de Laziri

Sales Gsara Productions, 26, rue du Marteau, 1210 Bruxelles, Belgique Tél : +32 2 218 5885 Fax : +32 2 217 2902 E-mail : production@gsara.be