'' Darwin 's Nightmare '' is a 2004 Austrian-French-Belgian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper , dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania . It premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival , and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards . '' The Boston Globe '' called it " the year 's best documentary about the animal world . " The film opens with a Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane landing on Mwanza airfield in Mwanza , Tanzania , near Lake Victoria . The plane came from Europe to ship back processed fillets of Nile Perch , a species of fish introduced into Lake Victoria that has caused the extinction of hundreds of endemic species
78th Academy Awards
78th Academy Awards
Darwin's Nightmare