if this film be just outrageously poor would be fine and the problem be many take it seriously . to make it short and a few point represent there be no story and no focus and no lead whatsoever and all the question raise fail to find an answer . overall and the film be extremely repetitive and boring ( i have be in war torn african country several time and find all the linger on local misery and hopelessness very painful to watch but still have no sense ) . question raise be pure manipulation and the truth be that they be no question but statement . i be no doc filmmaker and but what the point in raise and for example and the question of weapon smuggling and if the only element bring to the audience be a local reporter statement . the director doesn not even bother show u at least a sequence where he would be wait near the airport try to spot heavily loaded truck leave the area right after a plane land . the story of the fish take up less than 5 mn and and be only support by a sequence where the director film a documentary show during a local conference . do this guy do any work at all . abject poverty be show all the time in endless sequence but where the point . one can go almost anywhere in africa with a hand cam and shoot the same image unfortunately . where the big news . film the prostitute watch and cry over image of their assassinate friend and fellow prostitute be worth the bad emotional manipulation one can see these day on thrash and real tv . the parallel drawn between the famine devastate the country with over two million starving and the exportation of fish be absolutely pointless and dishonest and make no sense but to manipulate viewer in typically anti globalization and anti western feeling . there be an interesting debate in france after an academic publish a very detailed comment on the film and which bring number of journalist work in africa for decade to investigate a bit further about several detail . it turn out that represent the fish waste show drying in the sun and collect by some local people be not at all meant to be eat by human being but be collect to be export for reasonably good money for animal feeding purpose . i think i be not the only one have have the impression that the director suggest the exact opposite . arm smuggling be a reality ( but there again and where the big news . ) and but not the way this film explain the issue . if the empty plane land in mwanza do participate in smuggle and they actually unload their shipment in a different location in africa and then go to mwanza to pick up fish in order not to make the trip back empty ( mean that they do actually land empty in mwanza . ) . people do eat fish locally and contrary to what the film suggest ( around 40 60 % of what be take out of the lake ) and thousand of people make their living with it . good for them . it private business of that kind that will one day take african country out of poverty and not western moaning and endless foreign assistance . i can not tell how shocked i be see the success of this film .