For twenty-five years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been torn apart by a war largely ignored by the media and the international community. The victims number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. The perpetrators of these crimes are countless: rebel movements, but also armies, those of Congo and neighboring countries…
All seem caught up in a dizziness of killings, for power, for money, to monopolize the wealth of the Congo with complete impunity, in general indifference. Traveling the Congo, camera in hand for thirty years, Thierry Michel has witnessed the fighting, the suffering, but also the hopes of the Congolese people. Relaying the plea of Doctor Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize, and in the continuity of his previous film The man who mends womenit traces the sequences of this ruthless violence that has ravaged and ruined the Congo for a quarter of a century.
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Interview with Ukrainian filmmaker Serguei Loznitsa by Sébastien Jédor.