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WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS

By Jon KASBE

Documentary - Completed 2018

In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline.

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Tribeca FF 2018

Sheffield DocFest 2018

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- SWAHILI
- Duration
- 79 mn
- Director(s)
- Jon KASBE
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-5699-0000-X-0000-0000-C
- Synopsis
- In a Kenyan town bordering wildlife conservation land, two men try to hold onto their
  increasingly fragile status quo. A small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces
  mobilize to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger
  who hasn’t been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline.
  
  The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world. And as
  the government cracks down, the poachers face their own existential crisis. For them,
  conservationists are not only winning their campaign to value elephant life over its ivory, but
  over human life as well. Who are these hunters who will risk death, arrest and the moral outrage
  of the world to provide for their families?
  
  Director Jon Kasbe followed the film’s subjects over a three-year period, gaining an
  extraordinary level of access and trust as he became part of their everyday lives. The result is a
  rare and visually arresting look through the perspectives and motives of the people at the
  epicenter of the conservation divide.

WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS

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