No Simple Way Home

Akuol de Mabior’s illuminating debut feature length film is both personal reflection as well as historical excavation of a country’s troubled past. With No Simple Way Home, de Mabior, daughter of the late South Sudanese vice president and liberation hero John Garang de Mabior, reflects on her father’s outsized legacy and the country he left behind. Having been born and raised in exile, the filmmaker returns to the country of her parent’s birth, searching for her place in the new republic. Through intimate interviews with her mother – also a formidable politician in her own right – and her sister, de Mabior interrogates the idea of home as well as the sense of responsibility that she may have inherited from her parents.