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We Come as Friends
We Come as Friends is a 2014 Austrian-French documentary film written, directed and produced by Hubert Sauper. The film premiered in-competition in the "World Cinema Documentary Competition" at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. It won the "Special Jury Award for Cinematic Bravery" at the festival.
The film also premiered in-competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on February 8, 2014. It won the "Peace Film Award" at the festival.
Then my friends suggested I come up with a more cost-effective project so that we could pump in the money ourselves. That’s when I zeroed in on Ithihasa."
The film centers on body swapping, a theme that has been explored earlier in many films. The director says: "This thread has been explored earlier in Hollywood, as in "It’s a Boy Girl Thing". Another film featuring a story on body swapping was "Freaky Friday". We used this thread to develop into a