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THANK YOU!

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THANK YOU!

There are many of you who have trusted us and supported us with your contributions—physically, morally, emotionally, and spiritually—over the past ten years.

We first thanked you in the credits at the end of the film. However, since there are so many of you, and you might get lost among the other acknowledgments to the representatives of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement and the army, who protected us for ten years during attacks by the government army and various militias, both on land and from the air, we feel the need to thank you once again here.
A heartfelt thank you! This is also your film!


Vlada Batista, Janja in Jure Baznik, Nina Behek, Nataša Bernard, Matej Bernard, Suzana Bernetič, Julija Bešvir, Boris Boštar, Avgust Braatz, Marjan Cencen, Karmen Cunder, Gabi Čačinovič, Vid Červek, Andraž Čok Šarko, Marko in Aleksandar Džordževič, Miha Doles, Darja Erhatič, Brane Erjavec, Judita Eržen, Idris Fadul, Ana Fajmut, Gašperlin Franc, Lovro Gantar, Anita Garafolj, Matej Golob, Jožica Gramc, Melita Gramec, Alenka in Jure Hladnik, Maša Jazbec, Miran Mohor, Igor Jelovčan, Nada, Miha in Mišo Jensterle, Darja Jerman, Andrej in Babi Jošt, Jana Jureš, Elvira Juretič, Anja Kaughari, Marjan in Mira Kalan, Azad in Silva Karim, Simona Kavčič, Majda in Rudi Kern, Maja Kirar, Miha Klepec, Branka Kogoj, Franci Kokalj, Dušica Koporec, Marko Košnik, Rok Kovač, Brane Kovačič, Maja Križnar Grm, Jan Križnar, Francka Križnar, Milivoj in Lenčka Krpan, Žiga Kržišnik Mlakar, David Lah, Miha Lampreht, Joži Landa Bručan, Martina Lavrenčič, Marjana Lavrič, Gašper Lavrič, Matija Leonardi, Uroš Lesjak, Martina Leskovec, Borut Likar, Young Man in Vesna, Stane in Maruša Mali, Angelina Markovič, Miro Masten, Yona Meril Černe, Marjan Mihelič, Maja Mihelič, Eva Miler,  Gregor Miler, Drago Mislej Mef, Marko Močnik, Mateja Modrijan, Miran Mohar, Marko Murč, Vera Nagode, Simona Nagode, Beno Narobe, Janez Nebec, Aleš Ogrin, Pavle in Anka Oman, Nada Osovnikar, Karmen Osredkar, Vida Otič, Beata Ozmec, Mira in Katarina Papler, Peter Pavkovič, Janja Pavlič, Blaž Peršin, Špela Peterka, Lara Pivk Ogrin, Robi Pivk, Klavdija Pivk, Ljuba Pivk, Franjo Podnar, Darko Pokorn, Dragan Potočnik, Meta Purger, Vida in Alja Robič, Milan Rus, Iztok in Breda Sajko, Janja Simonišek, Sara Simšič, Agata Smrekar, Tanja Smrtnik, Ivka Sodnik, Marjan in Marta Sotlar, Maja Stare Mihelič, Fani Šega, Andrej Širca, Matej Škerl, Iztok Škofic, Ivko in Mojca Špendal, Vlado Špindler, Rok Štemberger, Andrej Švent, Maruša Tekavčič, sestra Terezija Pavlič, Nikola Todović, učenci, učiteljski zbor in tehnično osebje OŠ 8 talcev Logatec, Irana Uranič, Mirko in Marija Uranič, Janko in Kristina Uranič, Marija Urbas, Robert Verlič, Maruška Vidovič, Peter Virant, Anja Vrdlovec, Sebastjan Weber, Lidija Zajec, Rudi Zaman, Lucija Zlodej in Srečko Šorli, Anton Zobec, Domen Zupan, Klemen Zupan, Monika Žagar, Julija Žerovnik, Maja Žerovnik, Uroš Žerovnik, Miloš Žvan, Rafko Žerovnik

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Presentation of Bojana and Toma Križnar

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Presentation of Bojana and Toma Križnar before the screening of their documentary film Rotting 2022 at the Theater in Jesenice

Bojana and Toma are the authors of the new documentary film Rotting 2022.

What are they trying to convey with the title of this film, which they filmed in Europe and Africa over ten years?

Tomo promised himself three beautiful things in life while studying at the Kranj Technical School, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Ljubljana, and the High School of Economics and Commerce in Maribor.

First: the most beautiful car.

Second: the most beautiful house.

And third: the most beautiful woman.

Then, after receiving his passport, he went to Africa, and all his priorities changed. Why?

What did Tomo feel must exist somewhere, and what has he been searching for since that rebellious year of 1968? And what did he find?

Bojana is Tomo’s wife. Since they met ten years ago, they have been reporting together from the most exploited, despised, and forgotten continent. She is a journalist, teacher, and mother.

The film Rotting 2022 is Bojana’s and Tomo’s child. It was born out of love, after Tomo had almost given up on ever finding what he was truly searching for.

Bojana and Tomo don’t just travel to the most inaccessible places on the planet. They film, photograph, direct movies, write for newspapers and magazines, publish books, and give lectures to the broadest public. They also follow politicians and lobby the most influential and well-known figures who claim to work for democracy, human rights, and environmental protection.

They call for help for the most innocent of humankind, those who can no longer help themselves. The most endangered indigenous people who have survived the entire history of the slave hunt and the “Kill the slave with a slave” politics, and who continue to defend their families with weapons in their natural fortresses in the Nubian Mountains and the liberated territories of the Blue Nile in Sudan.

In the documentary Rotting 2022, you will see and hear how they found the rotting bodies of the still-living lepers and how “Mother” Europe, the UN agencies, and good people reacted.

After 55 minutes of the film, they will answer your questions.

In the meantime, they will try to tell everything that they weren’t able to fit into the film last year.

They will also sincerely tell you how the film was received at the world premiere, which this time they didn’t organize in Cannes, Berlin, or Amsterdam, but among the lepers they are treating with the help of friends in Africa. And how the film has been received in Slovenia and Europe. They will also discuss the similarities and differences between the war in Africa’s Sudan and the war in Europe. And what their plans are now, after all their experiences.

You are invited to join us if you are not afraid of the truth.
Tomo and Bojana

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COMING SOON: Rotting 2022

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COMING SOON: Rotting 2022

A documentary film by Bojana Pivk Križnar & Toma Križnar

After ten years of filming in the “Liberated Territories” in Sudan and the “Occupied” European Union, we are announcing a new documentary film by the Toma Križnar Foundation.

The authors, Bojana and Toma Križnar, have titled it Rotting 2022.

We officially organized the world premiere in February at the peak of the Nubian Mountains in Sudan. First, for the lepers, the greatest victims of Rotting 2022, and their families, rebels against the traditional slave hunters. And for the freedom fighters, who are fighting against new slavery, not only for themselves but also for all of us in the zones of apparent safety and privileges around the world, including us in Europe.

We will notify you of the Slovenian and European premieres as soon as we have an agreement.

Toma Križnar and Bojana Pivk Križnar

Presentation of the documentary Rotting 2022 at Dr. Janija Kokalja Elementary School, Nubian Mountains, February 2022








Late-night viewing of Rotting 2022 posters, Nubian Mountains, February 2022

Film trailer

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Human compassion has become a deadly weapon

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Human compassion has become a deadly weapon

Hello,

Tomo is still recording and collecting the data about lepers in Nubba mountains. I am sending you some information.

December-January expedition to Nubba mountain in Sudan was very stressful for me, but it also brought me stronger will to stop the rotting of the people who didn’t just offer their hands to us, but everything they had. Prejudice disappeared, we ate together, cried and laughed together.

We discovered leprosy in the end of year 2017. When we were recording the victims of a mass hunger, we saw people with rotten eyes and arms without fingers, legs with no toes. This happened towards the end of our travel, that’s why we went back in December 2018, to get more data about the extent of disease and to document as many examples. With the help of our minister of health we notified the World health organization about the leprosy. Our ministry was willing to give 20.000 euros to help the cause. But the WHO was not convinced by 20.000 euros or by the fact that they should send the medicine in 48 hours’ time, since the disease is contagious. They gave us an answer that they cannot go to Nubba mountain or Blue Nile because it’s a war area and also they didn’t meet with us as promised.

In the end of December 2018 we were put in custody on the border between South Sudan and Sudan in the concentration camp Yida. They took our cameras, Dictaphones and passports, so that we couldn’t get any proof about anything. The reason is greed for money. Bribes are the reason for the last war which took if we look at the last data of UN over 400.00 lives in South Sudan and sent away over six millions of people.

We insisted and after twelve days of arguing and angry looks and with help of our many influent friends in Sudan and South Sudan we got everything back. We also got a direct experience that animals take care of their specie much better than the civilised man. We saw inhuman conditions of refugees and partly an answer, why there is so much trouble with the medications for lepers.

Meetings followed. In front of us there were people with rotten hands, legs, talking about deaf and insensitive limbs. And those who lost fingers, hands, feet. Many times also eyes can rot.  All of them spoke about severe pain in all parts of their body.

One of them had a piece of cloth over his right arm and plastic shoes on feet. When he showed us what the disease made to his body, when je removed the cloth and the shoes, there was no human but the remains of a human. A little was left of his feet. Smell on rotting meat was inviting flies but he couldn’t do much about it. New weapon is found to kill these people. People with only one sin. Being born on rich land. Not fear not death. But slow falling apart and rotting in front of all community.

But nothing stays in your memory more than humanity, kindness of Nubba people. Not even disease can put away their smile and hospitality. Not even an enemy should be hungry. 69 years old Rauda got leprosy forty years ago. She made fire and peeled peanuts to give them to us. We tried to convince her we are not hungry but she didn’t stop. She continued until the she filled the pot although you could notice she is in pain. The dignity, being a human, cannot be taken from them.

The disease can be cured with the therapy of two antibiotics (it takes half year) or with the therapy of three antibiotics (it takes one year), depending on the type of leprosy. Consuming only one dose of medication, the person is not contagious anymore.

But there is no medication in Nubba mountains. Also in South Sudan they have problem with receiving medications. Visiting Juba Teaching Hospital, we’ve been told that since November they didn’t receive no antibiotics, so they can’t treat 150 new lepers. Novartis, that produces the antibiotics, don’t know the reason why they don’t get them.

»Don’t give up! « would probably say Tomo’s father, judging by the title of his book Don’t give up, boy.

New negotiation about getting the medication through German hospital in Nubba mountain will happen in the end of February in Slovenia, in that time, Tomo will return too.

If negotiation will continue and if we don’t give us nothing convincing, we’ll start on our own – looking for sponsors, donators, candidates to join the doctors who already volunteered to share their knowledge with others to give medication and soothe side-effects of the antibiotics to the lepers who are a day or more days away from first hospital in Nubba mountain. Medication can be bought in Uganda and delivered to Nubba mountain and Blue Nile. This way we can make possible what is the right of every one – to be Human.

More information about leprosy treatment in Nuba mountain and Blue Nile on: www.tomokriznar.com.

And some more photos and shots from the last way you can find on the link:

https://www.delo.si/novice/svet/cloveska-socutnost-postala-smrtonosno-orozje-141007.html  

 

                                                                                                                                   Postojna, 5. 2. 2019

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New calendar and planner: Leprosy 2019

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New calendar and planner: Leprosy 2019

Looking through the lenses of our cameras, as we filmed the victims

of the new mass starvation in the Nuba mountains in January, we suddenly

saw those empty eyes. Faces without ears. And hands and feet

without fingers and toes.

There, high above the savanna, in front of the mud and straw building

of the coptic church on mount Acheron, people were rotting before

our very eyes! Sick, starving, exhausted fellow humans that nobody

knows about, we were their first and so far only witness.

The responsibility for the disgusting disintegration of human bodies

in the Nuba mountains and Blue Nile lies in the shameful disintegration

of values, hearts, consciousness and conscience of privileged humanity in the

raging conflicts between all the major global economic and military

elites for control over natural resources, and the simultaneous

siege and extermination of the Nuba, the most innocent indigenous African

people.

For all of you that still care, we are working on a new documentary.

We hope it will also convince WHO and UN officials to carry out

their duty.

Please buy this calender and help us to finish the production of documentary film and stop spreading leprosy.

Order calendar: tomo.narocila@gmail.com

Price: 9 EUR + posting
Account Number Fundation Tomo Križnar: SI56 0510 0801 3175 987
BIC: ABANSI2X (Account will be attached to the shipment).

Please help to spread this message.

Thank you for your cooperation.

We wish you happy new year.

Tomo and Bojana Križnar

Planner for 2019 is also available:

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