Wrong Elements

Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, named 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.

Keywords

  • Belgian Docs
  • Belgium
  • Just released
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Africa
  • war

Actors

  • Geofrey
  • Nighty
  • Mike
  • Lapisa Evelyn

Director

  • Jonathan Littell

Documentary


2h 13min


16+

SW


FR

Belgium
Germany
France
2016
Geofrey, Nighty, Mike and Lapisa were child soldiers under Joseph Kony. Now they are trying to rejoin society.

Geofrey, Nighty, Mike and Lapisa were child soldiers under Joseph Kony. Now they are trying to rejoin society.


Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, named 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.

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