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- Oscar-winning director Kathyrn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) and VR creator Imraan Ismail (The Displaced, Valen's Reef) have co-directed The Protectors, a VR short documentary exposing the dangerous and grueling reality faced by rangers protecting African elephants from ivory poachers. Over 30,000 African elephants die each year at the hands of poachers, and despite the global outcry over the killings trafficking continues. The biggest key to saving these elephants from extinction are the rangers working on the ground within Africa's national parks. The project was made in partnership with National Geographic Channel and Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures.
- "The rape of the land, the mutilation of the flesh." La femme Congolaise - courageous and industrious despite the vicissitudes and the turbulence of life. She continues to fight for herself, taking on professions previously reserved for men. More often then not she must pay her children's school fees and compensate for her husband who is either underpaid, unemployed, or absent. She sells kikwembe at Zando market ; she is an engineer repairing electronics on the corner of the street, she is a designer, a stylist, minister, or teacher... Demonstrating their incredible strength and their faith in their ability to continue their own advancement, these women stand strong in their communities even as they denounce the rape and the violence they experience. "Both earth and mother, she is the foundation, like Kinshasa herself, scorned and beloved." Please find the trailer on our website: www.jazzmama.org
- In Kisangani, a group of high-school students who cannot afford to pay the teachers' "bonuses" organized themselves to prepare the State exam together.
- While following Jemima, a curious little girl wandering through dusty roads, crowded markets, slaughterhouses and bat hunting scenes, we encounter three other women who describe the harsh realities of being born female and deaf in a society that sees one as a defect and the other as demonic possession. The film follows the everyday struggles of Immaculée, Sylvie and Stuka against marginalization, abuse and oppression. Despite the insurmountable barriers imposed on them by society, the protagonists' strong and undefeated will allows them to take hold of their fate every single day revealing the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.
- A young student's life is upturned via social media when her private nudes are made public.
- This film illustrate through physical struggle, the clash between generations and civilizations.
- During a stay in the countryside, a drama occurs within a young couple.
- A DUTY TO PROTECT tells the story of child soldiers used in the Eastern DRC. It pays special attention to the abuses suffered by girl soldiers and calls for international pressure to bring those responsible to justice before the International Criminal Court.
- This film is documents the struggles of Mr. Jean-Lucien Bussa, an idealistic member of the National Assembly, who routinely confronts his own conflicting incentives of service to others and service to his own needs. When does patronage end and corruption begin?
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- An exploration of volcanoes around the world. Adventure Filmmaker Peter Rowe climbs and films 19 volcanoes around the world, from Iceland to the Congo, Italy to Indonesia, Guatemala to Vanuatu, interacting with the people who live and work near these extreme forces of nature.
- To you my little daughter, the story of our beautiful and beloved country.
- In Mundele, the identity interrogations of the author of Gabonese and French origins that stages herself, a reflection of the perception of those around her, are a metaphor of the structural situation of Central Africa, embodied by the representation of her perception of herself through the urban landscape. From the hairdressing salon where her hair become the vector of questioning to her stroll in Pointe Noire from historic to iconic places, Mundele offers a vision of France-Afrique past, present, and future like a meditation, an intriguing dream.
- This story leads us in the footsteps of a young artist in Kinshasa, who practices painting with a public less known technique, she paints his canvases with the smoke of a lamp oil.
- Tales of Us: "The little Fish and the Crocodile" is a fable from the rainforest in the Odzala National Park in the Republic of Congo told by the children of the Sanza Mobimba Kindergarden.