Film
THE CONGO TRIBUNAL

A film by Milo Rau

Sat, 03.11.2018
7:30 PM Zoukak Studio

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Milo Rau
 
Germany/Switzerland 2017, 100 min (French, English, German, Swahili, Lingala among others, with Eng. Subtitles)
 
Director & Screenplay Milo Rau
Camera Thomas Schneider
Dramaturgy & Editing Katja Dringenberg
Research & Casting Eva-Maria Bertschy
Music Marcel Vaid
Sound Design & Mixing Guido Keller
Producer Sebastian Lemke
Production Arne Birkenstock, Olivier Zobrist
 
A production of Fruitmarket (Germany) and Langfilm (Schweiz) / in cooperation with IIPM - International Institute of Political Murder / SRF Swiss Radio and Television - SRG SSR / ZDF in cooperation with ARTE
 
Film funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW / Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK), Schweiz / BKM - Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien / Kanton St.Gallen Kulturförderung - Swisslos / Zürcher Filmstiftung / DFFF - Deutscher Filmförderfonds / Migros-Kulturprozent / Volkart Stiftung
 
For more than 20 years an inexplicable Civil War is turning a territory as big as western Europe into hell on earth. Triggered by the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and based on the direct or indirect involvement of all great powers of our time, the Congo War, also called the "Third World War", has claimed up to six million lives. Many observers not only see in it a fight about political predominance in Central Africa, but also one of the most decisive economic battles for the share in the era of globalization. While the number of rebel armies involved may be in-transparent - the more in-transparent are the arms dealers operating in the supply lines, the role of foreign diplomats and humanitarian relief organizations, but also the entanglements of multinational mining companies. Will this - so far biggest and bloodiest - economic war of human history decide about the future order of the global community?

„The Congo Tribunal“ brought together the main protagonists and analysts of the Congo War in Bukavu – the provincial capital of South Kivu, the most affected area by the war – and one month later in Berlin for a large, three-day civil tribunal. It was created as a reaction to the passivity of the international community to the systematic attacks against the civil population in East Congo and was designed to counteract the decades of impunity in the region.

Milo Rau‘s „The Congo Tribunal” examines the causes and background to this war in the Great Lakes region in a unique and stunningly political cross-media art project. The result is a humanly harrowing, profound analytic tableau of the neo-colonial world order.
 
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