Darwins Nightmare DVD

Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 French-Belgian-Austrian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards.

While food is shipped out of Africa to be sold in European (and other World) markets, local populations in several regions of the African continent are starving to death and millions are invested constantly by the UN in humanitarian aids. Tanzania does not escape from this reality. “Darwin’s Nightmare” shows the living conditions of the population at Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The introduction of a predatory fish in Lake Victoria by mistake – which has wiped out the native species – has given rise to a new fishing industry, delivering tons and tons of fish fillets to Europe, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

While food is flown out of Africa into Europe by gigantic cargo planes, weapons are transported from Europe to Africa by the exactly the same airplanes.

At one point in the film a local preacher, asked whether he encourages condom use to prevent AIDS, responds that he does not address using condoms because having pre-marital sex is an act of sin and against God's law. Therefore he preferred to preach to people not to have sex before marriage.

As to why the local fish can't be made available to the obviously malnourished African children nearby, one fish processing factory manager explains "it is too expensive"

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