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Original Film Title: Help me help you
Director’s Name: Stéphanie Sassen
Writer’s Name: Stéphanie Sassen
Producer: The Arctic University of Norway
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: Namibia
Language: English, Other
Runtime: 35 minutes 28 seconds
Film Description:
Help me help you is about young people motivated to help in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, a place that has attracted much outsider help for many decades. Armed with cameras and participatory video training given by an overseas NGO, a group of young Ju/’hoansi become activists. “It’s not good to sit without doing something”. As they are making a film on the roots of educational marginalisation, the film they are in weaves together joint challenges and contrasts good intentions with power dynamics.
The youngsters turn the camera on school children. The filmmaker turns the camera on the youngsters. Through a microphone, they are opening up a space to speak across generations and continents in their quest to help. But what does help mean?