Cahier Africain

It all started with a small school exercise book. But instead of being full of vocabulary, the pages were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them between October 2002 and March 2003 in the wake of armed conflict. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book to record the crimes committed against them.

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • DOK Leipzig
  • déjà-vu FILM
  • Label: SWISS FILMS
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Screen: Germany
  • Topic: No war!
  • Africa
  • war
  • women

Director

  • Heidi Specogna

Documentary, Independent


1h 59min


0 FSK

DE


DE

Germany
Switzerland
2016
A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.

A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.


It all started with a small school exercise book. But instead of being full of vocabulary, the pages were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them between October 2002 and March 2003 in the wake of armed conflict. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book to record the crimes committed against them.

Award
Deutscher Filmpreis

Festivals

Cast & Crew