Dar Fur - The War for Water is a documentary film about the mission of Tomo Križnar, human rights activist and special envoy of the former Slovenian president, Dr. Janez Drnovška, to the forbidden areas of western Sudan, where the world's largest humanitarian disaster is currently taking place. This is the first film about Dar Fur, giving the rest of the world an insight into the mindset of the Darfur rebels and the events that took place there in 2006, and shows why the peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the self-proclaimed SLA vice president, Minni Minawi, was orchestrated by the US and was signed under the auspices of the African Union in Abuja, Nigeria, a political farce that continues to this day. The documentary argues that the war in Dar Fur is not only a war against marginalization and a rebellion against the greed of the Arab government. He offers strong arguments that the war began as a result of climate change that hit the Sahel at the end of the last millennium. Shocking footage and interviews testify that the clashes over a glass of water between African and Arab tribes in Dar Fur are being manipulated by foreign interests. The richest water sources in the Sahel are in the Jebel Marre mountains, where the Furies live.
| Producer: |
Ida Weiss |
| Director: |
Tomo Križnar and Maja Weiss |
| Script: |
Tomo Križnar and Maja Weiss |
| Photography: |
Tomo Križnar |
| Editing: |
Peter Braatz |
| Others: |
Film appearances: Tomo Križnar, slovenski predsednik dr. Janez Drnovšek, sudanski predsednik Omar Hassan al Bashir, predsednik Minawi SLA Minni Arcua Minawi, predsednik Wahid SLA Abdel Wahid al Nur, podpredsednik Minawi SLA dr. Mohamed Raya, generalni sekretar Minawi SLA Mustafa Terab, humanitarni koordinator Minawi SLA Suleiman Jammous, koordinator Minawi v Čadu SLA Adam Shogar, komandant Minawi SLA Adam Bakhit, predsednik JAM Ibrahim Khalil in povsem običajni uporniki, civilisti in begunci Darfurja.
Technical support and installation of the final version: Jurij Moškon
Music: Chris Eckman
Sound design: Julij Zornik, Johanna Herr
Co-production: Tomo Križnar, RTV Slovenija – dokumentarni program
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Tomo Križnar was born in 1954 in Jesenice. He has a degree in economics and mechanical engineering. He started traveling as a student; with a hitchhiker around the world, with a motorcycle across Africa, with a moped around South America and with a donkey, two goats and four chickens for the first time in the central Sudanese province of Kordofan. After many trips, he gets a job at Iskra Telematics, where he works as a project manager of relations with IBM International, but only a few years later he goes to refugee camps in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Kampuchea as a volunteer... He exposes the injustices and crimes of the world in many books and films. Tomo Križnar was born in 1954 in Jesenice. He has a degree in economics and mechanical engineering. He started traveling as a student; with a hitchhiker around the world, with a motorcycle across Africa, with a moped around South America and with a donkey, two goats and four chickens for the first time in the central Sudanese province of Kordofan. After many trips, he gets a job at Iskra Telematics, where he works as a project manager of relations with IBM International, but only a few years later he goes to refugee camps in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Kampuchea as a volunteer... He exposes the injustices and crimes of the world in many books and films.
