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Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 film written and directed by Hubert Sauper. It was nominated for Best Documentary Film at the 78th Academy Awards.

The film discusses the effects of the introduction of the Nile Perch to Lake Victoria, how it has affected the ecology and economy of the region. It also dwells at length on the dichotomy between the huge amount of European aid which is being funneled into Africa, and yet at the same time the flow of munitions and weapons from European arms dealers flows unendingly into the continent, often on the same planes which transport the Nile Perch meat to European consumers, feeding the very conflicts which the aid was sent to remedy. As one of the Russian pilots says later on in the film, "The children of Europe receive fresh fish, the children of Angola receive guns for Christmas". The appalling living and working conditions of the indigenous people, in which basic sanitation is completely absent and many children turn to drugs and prostitution, is covered in great depth; because the Nile Perch fish is farmed commercially, all the prime fillets are sold to European supermarkets, leaving the local people to survive on the festering carcasses of the gutted fish.

The film won the Special Jury Prize and the Community Cinema Award at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2005.

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