This movie sticks with you. It’s a documentary sent in Tanzania about a town wholly dependent on the export of a certain type of fish (that ate all the other local fish) to European countries. It shows how the fish (not native to the area) have impacted the lives of everyone: the fishers, the homeless kids on the street, the people who go blind from dead fish fumes (managers of the carcasses), the prostitutes, the Russian pilots who transport the fish, and everyone in between. It’s not the perfect documentary (by my definition) in that there is definitely opinion present, but overall it’s informative, and I can’t help my mind continuing to wonder back to it several weeks after having seen it.
www.darwinsnightmare.com
[The first movie shown that night, God Sleeps in Rwanda, was likewise good, informative and heartbreaking. The q&a afterwards was not as enlightening as I would have liked though.]