Please join us for a screening of God Grew Tired of Us introduced by Political Science Professor João Resende-Santos, Global Studies Department.

***Co-Sponsored by Bentley’s African Student Association***

God Grew Tired of Us (2006-U.S.-89 min.) directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and Tommy Walker

“Do you have a lot of freedom here that you didn’t have?” a woman asks, while floating in a public pool in Pittsburgh. With her are Panther Bior and Daniel Abol Pach, refugees since childhood from their villages in the south of war-torn Sudan. After wandering sub-Saharan Africa on the brink of starvation and ten more years spent in a U.N. camp in Kakuma, Kenya, they’ve come to the U.S. for a home, for opportunity, for hope. They’ll also find sprinkled doughnuts, packaged food, second and third jobs, isolation, homesickness, survivor’s guilt, racism, depression, and the tyranny of the alarm clock. Winner of the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance 2006, the film follows three “lost boys” – also including John Bul Dau, a camp leader who evolves into an official advocate for the diaspora of young people resettled from their homeland – to Pittsburgh and Syracuse, N.Y., chronicling three years of their journey… [D]irectors Quinn and Walker delve into the lives of their subjects with a fly-on-the-wall candor, revealing as much about American life as they do of African life. 2006 Grand Jury Prize Winner for Documentary Film and 2006 Audience Award Winner for Documentary Film, Sundance Film Festival.

Bentley’s Fall 2025 International Film Series is made possible with generous support from the Department of Global Studies, the Department of English and Media Studies, the Valente Center for the Arts & Sciences, the Bentley Library, the Office of Sustainability, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Film and Media Studies Lab, the Academic Technology Center, and Bentley’s African Student Association.