Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

lucie-alphonse Africa united is a truly awesome, wonderful, brilliant, smart and funny film! It's a family adventure movie, because it's great for all ages, full of authentic energy, life and colour from the start. The film is well worth watching, all spectators laugh during the screening. Although at the end we want to cry, we smile. It's an enthralling movie. The cast is good with fabulous young actors. It's always delightful to see a film with child actors. It isn't based on a true-to-life story but it's heart- breaking. In the script, the film director has raised serious problems in Africa, but with a humorous touch.In my view, Africa United is a brilliant movie, it remains a smart film for all ages. Well done on a small budget!!! I'm encouraging everyone to see this film.

vinciane-bois "Africa United" has two sides.First and foremost,the film is very beautiful, fun, brilliant, heart breaking, full of energy, passion and adventure, the soundtrack is gorgeous! The actors aren't professional but really amazing! There are a lot of heartwarming scenes of kids overcoming hardships. The children have an enormous sense of friendship, solidarity and generosity. They are brave, adventurous and united. Some people say that the story is a bit thin, for kids, but we all are kids in our heart, aren't we? It's a family film, all ages can see it and be entertained! I really enjoyed every minute of this fabulous movie. At the and, you will cry and smile because of Dudu's very poignant death, it's fantastic! The other side is a movie which shows the problems in Africa. I have already been in Africa and the movie shows exactly what people live (AIDS, child soldiers, sex workers, poverty...) It denounces the life of the children who haven't got parents in Rwanda because of the genocide too.Those two sides make the film very interesting and it's really fantastic!

Neil Welch Talented footballing teenager Fabrice and genial rotund Dudu are friends in the same small Rwandan town, although Fabrice is privileged and Dudu is a shanty dweller. Together with Dudu's younger sister Beatrice they set off for a pre-World Cup trial for Fabrice in Kigali, take the wrong bus, and end up trying to make their own way to the World Cup in South Africa, picking up escaped child terrorist Foreman George and captive teen "waitress" Celeste on the way.This rather slight film doesn't bear examining too closely, or else much of its narrative credibility falls to pieces rather easily. But it doesn't need close examination, because the things which matter about it hold true irrespective of plot holes and logic flaws.At its heart is the various relationships between these kids. The 5 untried child actors are not only all excellent, but are able to clearly show how they, and the various relationships between them, change and grow throughout the film's length. In particular, Yves Dusenge as Foreman George, shows us a good hearted youngster who is haunted by the things he has witnessed and taken part in, and who perhaps gets most benefit (in an understated way) from the growing friendships within the group.Africa is, as always, spectacular. The film successfully shows us both its beauty and something of its ugly underside and, to its credit, it neither shies away nor beats us over the head with it. Issues like AIDS and child terrorism are met matter-of-factly.This small but joyful movie was very welcome because it gave me something rather different to the usual cinema fare, and well rewarded the time I spent in the company of these young African people.

cgmckie Thoroughly enjoyed the development of the children's characters, which at first was slow but well worth the wait. This film is a fantastic journey through some serious issues that should not have to be tackled by those so young and ended up being a well balanced, emotionally engaging, film.The world inside Dudu's head was also a highlight and credit must go to Directors Debs Gardner-Paterson and Simon Willows for being so thorough in their research on how this might play out. Brilliant! All that and more plus the fact that this film was made on less money than I pay in rent in a year (well… almost), makes it even more satisfying.I will go again and not hesitate to recommend it to others.