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- 2018
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 25 m
- 2018
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 25 m
Summary Welcome to the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where American doctor Tom Catena selflessly and courageously serves the needs of a forgotten people, as the region is bombed relentlessly by an indicted war criminal, Omar Al-Bashir. Two things remain constant: Dr. Tom’s faith and his enduring love for the Nuba people.
- 2018
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 25 m
- 2018
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 25 m
The Heart of Nuba
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Summary Welcome to the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where American doctor Tom Catena selflessly and courageously serves the needs of a forgotten people, as the region is bombed relentlessly by an indicted war criminal, Omar Al-Bashir. Two things remain constant: Dr. Tom’s faith and his enduring love for the Nuba people.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
66
60% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
40% Mixed
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2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Producer-director Kenneth A. Carlson (a teammate of Catena's at Brown) absorbingly, unfussily captures Catena's daily challenges and feats while also painting a vivid, often heartbreaking portrait of a forgotten people trapped in an underreported sociopolitical nightmare.
Sure, an uplifting film like The Heart of Nuba plays like hagiography, but you’re hard-pressed to find complaints about this saintly, sometimes profane surgeon and healer. Unless you want to interview al-Bashir for your film.
If Catena has any faults, they're not on display in this documentary. But it hardly matters, considering the importance of the work that he's done and continues to do.
If Catena has flaws, filmmaker Kenneth Carlson declines to feature them, perhaps because they’ve been friends since their Brown University days thirty years ago. Still, the doctor has earned the adulation, and a visit to a leper colony shows why.
The film is worth seeing because it’s a moving and remarkable story and it represents a great cause. Mr. Carlson often puts a directorial foot wrong.
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Production Company
Carlson Films
Release Date Apr 6, 2018
Duration 1 h 25 m
Genres
Tagline One Doctor. One Hospital. One Million Patients.
Website
http://theheartofnuba.com/
Awards
Hollywood Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
