Grand
Prix Competition
International Premiere
LOST
CHILDREN
LOST CHILDREN – VERLORENE KINDER
Ali
Samadi Ahadi, Oliver Stoltz
Country of production:
Uganda, Germany
Year: 2004/05
Language: Acholi, English
Mins: 95
Production company: Dreamer
Joint Venture Filmproduktion
Producer: Oliver Stoltz
Script: Ali Samadi Ahad, Oliver
Stoltz
Cinematography: Maik Behres
Editing: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Sound: Jens Schwarzburg
Music: Ali N. Askin
Source: Dreamer Joint Ventrue
Filmproduction
Motzstr. 34D-10777 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49.30 26 94 79 26
Fax: +49.30 26 94 7927
Fresh from its premiere at the Berlin
Film Festival, Lost Children brings audiences powerfully to
the heart of one of Africa’s worst humanitarian crises.
It follows four youngsters from northern Uganda, aged between
eight and 15 years, who were abducted and forced to kill by
the rebel movement the Lord’s Resistance Amy. Their
uneasy return to families, homes and villages is facilitated
by the rehabilitation center of the Caritas. The task of the
social workers is staggering. Most kidnapped children never
return alive. Either the rebels or the government kills them.
None of them wanted to do what they were forced to do. But
all their lives they will bear the stigma of being a killer
and will also remember the atrocities they caused and fear
being re-abducted and murdered. Will they ever forget? Will
they be forgiven? Is it possible for them to resume their
childhood after being a soldier?
 Ali
Samadi Ahadi was born in Tabriz, Iran in 1972. He took his
final school examinations in Hanover, Germany where he also
studied sociology and electronic media design followed by
film in Kassel. He has been working as an independent director
and editor since 2000.
FILMOGRAPHY
LOST CHILDREN (2004)
CULTURE CLAN (2003)
AFRICA-MAYIBUYE (2002)
BLACK-COLORED-WHITE (2000)
 Oliver
Stoltz was born in 1969. He studied film in Potsdam-Babelsberg
and Los Angeles. An independent producer, he founded the production
company Dreamer Joint Venture in 1997.
FILMOGRAPHY
LOST CHILDREN (2004)
WIE MAN SEINEN EX VERLASST (2003)
SCHLUSS MIT LUSTIG! (2001)
KAI RABE GEGEN DIE VATIKANKILLER (1998)
HERZBEBEN (1997)
MONDAY,
APRIL 4, 2005 AT 6.00 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2005 AT 6.00 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
TUESDAY,
APRIL 12, 2005 AT 7.00 PM. / GALLERY THEATRE
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