Promised Lands
2020•20m•Released
Documentary
People only know where one country ends and another begins because people have said it is so. The land doesn't know. The land probably doesn't care. Words kill.” So begins the narration of Promised Lands, as the artist tries to make a film but is interrupted by family conversations in rural Uganda.
Director
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
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