Desc: Land of Thorns: Struggling for Survival in Karamoja: Directed by Sacha Kagan, Steffen Keulig. The film highlights several of the manifold dimensions of the 30-years long development crisis in Karamoja (North-East Uganda) and of the responses to challenges in the region. The film depicts some turns of life in Karamoja through the portrays of three Karamojan women who have been facing various challenges with great personal strength, and reveals the interconnectedness of the different mechanisms of unsustainable development in Karamoja, opening up a search process for sustainable futures. Land of Thorns presents the richness and beauty of traditional pastoralist lives and cultures in the north east of Uganda and bordering Kenya.