Downstream to Kinshasa

Director: Dieudo Hamadi

2020 / 90min / DCP

The first Congolese film to be made an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Hamadi’s morally urgent documentary follows a journey undertaken by victims of the Six-Day War of 2000 waged between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies in the city of Kisangani, who are seen traveling down the Congo River to the capital city of Kinshasa in order to petition the government, in person, for recognition of and compensation for their suffering. “A documentary about Sisyphean persistence in the face of institutional indifference… Riveting.”—The New York Times

Introduction from Programmer Lydia Ogwang on Saturday, June 8th