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When Agel was only 10 years old, he became a child soldier, trained to kill. At that time, South Sudan was in the middle of a bloody civil war. Agel managed to flee to Australia but now he's back to help with the post-war reconstruction of the country. He coaches the basketball team and is helping the ruined state get back on its feet. He is establishing an organization to help areas without easy access to drinking water. But, when riots broke out again between ethnic groups in Southern Sudan in 2013, Agel feared he would pick up his gun again. This engaging documentary tracks Agel over two years, showing his willingness to help others and be useful to his community. (Days of European Film)
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We Were Rebels is a time-lapse portrait of a former child soldier who returns to South Sudan to help put his country back in order. One man’s story is interspersed with a more general account of South Sudan’s problems, for which the informative intertitles serve particularly well. The socio-political storyline comes across as a mere supplement to the central narrative of returning to the homeland and the film certainly does not stand up as a treatise on the complicated situation in the young African country. Agel’s story would have sufficed for a stand-alone film without the forced overlap into general explanation. It is thus a pity that the director does not elaborate more on this particular theme – the life story of a man who had been trained to kill at a young age.
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