What are the consequences when rape is used as a weapon of war? This moving documentary explores this question from the perspective of women in Africa - where this tragedy is witnessed again and again - and one particularly resilient family. Aziza and her husband were separated when the Congo-Kinshasa war broke out in 1996. Six years later, they reunite in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire). They are now rebuilding their family life with their four children. However, the souvenirs of the horrors suffered by other women in eastern DRC during the war still haunt journalist Aziza. She wonders what happened to Feza, the little girl for which she used to care. Soon, she feels obliged to return to this part of the country where women have started denouncing the abuses they suffered during the war.


Director: Osvalde Lewat-Hallade,

Cameroon, 2005, 63 min. In French, Swahili and Lingala.



2008 | 15th New York African Film Festival | NEW YORK, Usa | APRIL 9th to MAY 26th | www.africanfilmny.org |
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