Hubert Sauper

Sauper combines a heightened sense of film craft with determined journalistic impulses in such powerful documentaries as Kisangani Diary, on the fate of Rwandan refugees in Zaire, and Darwin’s Nightmare. A harrowing indictment of the global economic order, Darwin’s Nightmare was praised by The New York Times as an “extraordinary work of visual journalism,” employing the “terrifying sublimity of a painting by El Greco or Hieronymus Bosch.” Born and raised in an Austrian ski resort, he now lives in Paris. He teaches film in both Europe and the USA.

Selected Filmography

Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
Academy Award Nominee — Best Feature Documentary
César Award Nominee — Best First Film
Best Documentary — 2004 European Film Awards

Alone with Our Stories (2000)

Kisangani Diary (1998)
Grand Prix du meilleur Film 1998, Paris — Cinéma du Reel
New York — Gold prize for Best Documentary, NY Film Expo 1999

Lomographer’s Moscow (1995)