Event overview
Public Talk & Screening of "Wrong Elements” a 2017 documentary by Jonathan Littell
Followed by a discussion between the writer and filmmaker Jonathan Littell and architect Eyal Weizman (CRA).
Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a new rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s Resistance Army. An “army” that grew by abducting teenagers – more than 60 000 over 25 years – of which less than half came out of the bush alive.
Geofrey, Nighty and Mike, a group of friends, as well as Lapisa, were among these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normal, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they did not fully understand, they are forever the "Wrong Elements" that society struggles to accept.
Meanwhile, in the immensity of the Central African jungle, the Ugandan army still continues to hunt the last scattered LRA rebels. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run…
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 2 May 2017 | 12:00pm - 2:30pm |
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