Movie Description:
Although a documentary about the ravagesof AIDS and civil war in Uganda may seemat first like aradical departure, one of the most remarkable things aboutABC Africa is the way that Iran`s most celebrated auteur makessuch unlikely material very much his own. In true Kiarostami style, an impressionistic,deceptively simple record of a journey becomes the film itself. This striking visual poem is full of echoes from his oeuvre:the hypnotic tracking shots fromcar windows, the dirt-road villages, themajestic landscapes andabove all the emphasis on theresilience and resourcefulness of childre.