Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas, is a 2017 Swedish-Ethiopian documentary thriller film directed by Joakim Demmer and co-produced by Margarete Jangård for WG Film, Heino Deckert for ma.ja.de, and John Webster for JW Documentaries.
[1][2] The film revolves around farmland, the new green gold in Ethiopia, where foreign investors take control of millions of hectares of allegedly unused land, spurring massive forced evictions of local populations and violent repression of protest and resistance.
[3][4] The film was shot in and around Addis Ababa, Bale Province and Gambela in Ethiopia; New York City, Austin Texas and Washington in the USA and the Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan.
The film made its World Premiere CPH:DOX 2017 in the United States.
[6] In the Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest) 2017, the film was nominated for the Viktor Award for DOK.horizons and then for Environmental Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.