Darwin's Nightmare

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Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa.

Austrian helmer Hubert Sauper takes us on a hellish journey around the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. The lake's original ecosystem has been destroyed by the introduction of the Nile Perch...

This subtle and intriguing documentary by Hubert Sauper says a great many valuable things about Africa, about ecology, about globalisation and about international politics.

What's revealed to us over the course of the documentary's two hours is a horrifying vision of globalization gone terribly amuck, less a nightmare than a vicious domino effect...