Director Camilla Nielsson documents Zimbabwe's fight for democracy in 'President,' one of the year's best nonfiction films.
It’s impossible to watch Camilla Nielsson’s outstanding, gripping, necessary documentary about Zimbabwe’s 2018 national elections, “President” — one of the year’s best nonfiction films — without thinking of democracy as an especially fragile system in an increasingly unhospitable time. The lessons for Americans in this story’s churning peril and carefully laid traps shouldn’t be ignored.
Though she had to fight a censorship ban there on the completed film , her relationships allowed her to continue filming after Mugabe’s 2017 ouster in a military coup, when millions of Zimbabweans were led to believe by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the following year’s scheduled presidential contest would be the first free, fair and credible election in over a generation.
Inside campaign meetings at MDC headquarters, the vibe is cautiously optimistic — polling data is on their side, they can feel the mood, and their opponent’s rallies have been sparsely populated. But our early glimpses offrom public appearances — a stolid figure calmly, slowly saying the right things about election credibility to the press — show a disquietingly measured confidence.
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