In the organizer's words:

Muganga

D: Marie-Hélène Roux; Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Belgium, Gabon 2025; OmeU; DCP; 110 min.

German premiere

Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, pastor and future Nobel Prize winner for peace, meets Guy Cadière, a Belgian surgeon and atheist. Despite their differences, they unite for a common goal: to restore the bodies and dignity of thousands of women who have been abused as weapons of war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

For 30 years now, rape has been used as a weapon of war in the region around the mines to incite fear among the local population and make them flee. Every day, numerous women are brutally attacked and left to die. Through the Panzi hospital, Dr. Mukwege is helping these women by treating their horrific injuries and providing them with a safe place to recover. The inaction, complicity and silence of the authorities (both the Congolese government and the UN) have led Dr. Mukwege to become the spokesman for these women destroyed by these heinous crimes, which Roux's camera unabashedly shows bluntly on screen.

An event organized by the Afrika Film Festival Cologne, Free Congo Kollektiv, Deutsch-Kongolesisches-Jugendinstiut, Beautiful Colours, Focus Congo and the Theodor-Wonja-Michael Bibliothek