A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.

Kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope.

Very much a home video, and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all.

Kiarostami profoundly displays Uganda's life and culture through his touristy pictures, as deceptively simple as the alphabet

So muddled, repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style.

There are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film. It's makes a better travelogue than movie.

The you-are-there style ultimately enhances ABC Africa's ability to get inside the soul of Uganda, and of the viewer.

A movie of seemingly limpid transparency and tremendous, understated compassion.

ABC Africa, with its impressionistic style, doesn't provide much in the way of facts ... but it does provide glimpses of the dying.

The people in ABC Africa are treated as docile, mostly wordless ethnographic extras.