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4:45 pm - 01/18/2013

"God Loves Uganda" participating to the Sundance Festival

God Loves Uganda explores the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, where American missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry. The film follows evangelical leaders in America and Uganda along with politicians and missionaries as they attempt the radical task of eliminating “sexual sin” and converting Ugandans to fundamentalist Christianity.
As an American influenced bill to make homosexuality punishable by death wins widespread support, tension in Uganda mounts and an atmosphere of murderous hatred takes hold. The film reveals the conflicting motives of faith and greed, ecstasy and egotism, among Ugandan ministers, American evangelical leaders and the foot soldiers of a theology that sees Uganda as a test case, ground zero in a battle not for millions, but billions of souls.
Through verite, interviews, and hidden camera footage – and with unprecedented access – God Loves Uganda takes viewers inside the evangelical movement in both the US and Uganda.  It features Lou Engle, the creator of The Call which brings tens of thousands of believers together to pray against sexual sin. It provides a rare view of the most powerful evangelical minister in Uganda, who lives in a mansion where he’s served by a white-coated chef. It goes into a Ugandan church where a preacher whips a congregation into mass hysteria with anti-gay rhetoric. It records the culture clash between enthusiastic Midwestern missionaries and world weary Ugandans. It features a heartbreaking interview with gay activist David Kato shortly before he was murdered. It tells the moving story of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, a minister excommunicated, ostracized and literally spat on for being tolerant and his remarkable campaign for peace and healing in Uganda. Shocking, horrifying, touching and enlightening, God Loves Uganda will make you question what you thought you knew about religion.

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superdogbiter 18th-Jan-2013 03:54 pm (UTC)
this reminds me of the documentary where parents forcibly send their kids to a religious work camp because they believe they are going to hell
punishermax 18th-Jan-2013 03:57 pm (UTC)
Jesus Camp.
superdogbiter 18th-Jan-2013 03:59 pm (UTC)
nope it's not jesus camp
these kids are much older and the camp counslers basically with permission from the parents get kidnapped and taken to that work camp
eyduh 18th-Jan-2013 04:14 pm (UTC)
these kids are much older and the camp counslers basically with permission from the parents get kidnapped and taken to that work camp

i'm trying so hard to understand this sentence but i can't :/
manubibi 18th-Jan-2013 04:18 pm (UTC)
I think they're saying that the parents give permission to the counselors to take the boys/girls forcibly to these camps.
sounds absurd to me anyway :/
invisible_cunt 18th-Jan-2013 06:13 pm (UTC)
YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S A FILM SCARIER THAN JESUS CAMP!?


bc that shit was literally the scariest film i've ever seen
manubibi 18th-Jan-2013 03:59 pm (UTC)
whatttt
thesilverymoon 18th-Jan-2013 04:22 pm (UTC)
Kidnapped for Christ you mean?
superdogbiter 18th-Jan-2013 04:29 pm (UTC)
YES THIS IS IT THANK YOU
invisible_cunt 18th-Jan-2013 06:15 pm (UTC)
THERE'S A FILM SCARIER THAN JESUS CAMP!?
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