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GOD GREW TIRED OF US
Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn
With: John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, Daniel Abul Pach
Narrated by: Nicole Kidman
Run Time: 89 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Reviews: www.metacritic.com/film/titles/godgrewtiredofus
GOD GREW TIRED OF US is an inspiring portrait of three former “lost boys” from war-torn Sudan who attempt to adjust to life in the United States. Documentary filmmaking at its most powerful, the film won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The stories of Sudan’s “lost boys” are horrifying: running from Janjaweed militias, they suffered desperate hikes through the African wilderness through both dire cold and scorching heat, lacking water, food or even clothing. Those who endured the weeks and months on foot arrived at overcrowded refugee camps, often orphaned and witnesses to unthinkable atrocity. Stays at the camps, in neighbouring countries like Chad or Kenya, lasted a decade for some. However, for John Bul Dau, Panther Bior and Daniel Abul Pach, the journeys do not end there, but in a country a world apart in every way one could care to count. The young men, relocated to the United States by an international refugee programme, react to and question the conventions and modern “comforts” of their new American homes. Their voyage from the naked panic of the refugee camps to new lives in the United States is astonishing.
“Visually stunning and contextually provocative, God Grew Tired of Us is quite simply one of the most beautiful documentaries I've ever seen. Intelligent, heartbreaking, uplifting, humorous and reverent, the film is an adventure in what it means to be human.” - Mark Bell, Film Threat
“Nothing short of inspiring ... God Grew Tired of Us presents some very good people – those little victims grown tall – as they work to make sense of tragedy.” - Kieran Grant, Eye Weekly
