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  • 2016
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2016
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 43 m
When Two Worlds Collide

Summary In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from...

Directed By: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel

  • 2016
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2016
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 43 m

When Two Worlds Collide

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from...

Directed By: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Mixed
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83
Aug 17, 2016
When Two Worlds Collide employs a variety of styles and approaches to construct a single gripping narrative.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 18, 2016
The film makes its case powerfully, and the myriad parallel situations in which private commercial interests continue to trump environmental ones worldwide makes that viewpoint easy to accept as valid.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 18, 2016
Earnest, direct and sometimes surprisingly dramatic.
By Justin Lowe FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 18, 2016
Listless at times and lacking the killer instinct required to follow through on the emotional toll that the fighting took on its survivors, the documentary is far more insightful about the buildup to bloodshed than it is about the mess that was left behind in its wake.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 17, 2016
Ultimately, When Two Worlds Collide has a breathless urgency to it, even if its structuring of events feels a bit ramshackle, and the directness of its environmental warnings feel no different than a thousand other message docs.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 18, 2016
While clearly on the side of the protesters, the filmmakers are still determined to explain every legal detail, and at times matters become bogged down in endless televised journalists and snappish legislators.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 16, 2016
The issues presented in When Two Worlds Collide are so crucial that it feels churlish to characterize it as a dutiful, and ultimately pedestrian, documentary. There is something evasive about it as well.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Yachaywasi Films
Release Date Aug 17, 2016
Duration 1 h 43 m
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Website http://www.whentwoworldscollidemovie.com/
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Awards

Zurich Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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