The film tells the story of one of Africa's most isolated tribes - the Mursi - through the eyes of one of its members Olisarali Olibui, who carries in one hand a Kalashnikov and in the other - a camera. A pastoralist tribe living in an area of Ethiopia the size of Wles, the Mursi are surrounded by potential threats - fourteen other tribes, proposals to build a national park, and a new road bringing tourists.
"Shooting with Mursi" provides a compelling, and at times disturbing, insight into the life of a people whose culture, in the words of Olisarali, faces extinction.
Ben Young has edited and directed numerous films about people in the remotest regions of the world. He lived with Wodaabe in Niger and spent 2 months in the Amazon. "Making the film Shooting with Mursi with a member of the community opened my eyes in a way that normal observational documentary making can't. Olisarali is a natural, both in front of and behind the camera."
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In the mining area of Tunisia on January 5, 2008, a sit-in in front of the town hall of Redeyef |