Fresh
Shot on video, and with the look of a PBS entry, it nevertheless manages to function on several levels -- all of them complex and sophisticated.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003 · 1h 27m · Unrated
Documentary
Directed by
Megan Mylan
,
Jon Shenk
Overview
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Culture shock is hopelessly inadequate to describe the experience of the young subjects of the riveting documentary Lost Boys of Sudan.
Ted Fry, Seattle Times
Fresh
Offers an opportunity to see a good movie and learn something about an issue that has received far too little attention in the U.S. press.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh
It might help you understand an unfamiliar face walking toward you on the street, and that's a great accomplishment for any film.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Rotten
A documentary about two refugees who come to the United States, it offers a detailed look at the hurdles they face but makes no attempt to analyze, explain or advocate changes that would help them.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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