Film: The Congo Tribunal
Film: The Congo Tribunal
In parallel with the installation in the exhibition This Rare Earth - Stories from Below, the documentary THE CONGO TRIBUNAL will be screened two times in Cinema ZED - STUK. On February 21st, the screening is followed by a Q&A with director Milo Rau. On February 22nd, the screening at 20:00 is followed by a Q+A with Peter Verlinden. Due to the large demand, there will be an extra screening on February 22nd at 22:30, with a short introduction.
THE CONGO TRIBUNAL examines the causes and backgrounds of a civil war which has been turning a territory as big as western Europe into hell on earth. Triggered by the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the Congo War, also called the "Third World War", has claimed more than six million lives. Many observers not only see in it a fight about political predominance in Central Africa, but also one of the most decisive economic battles for the share in the era of globalization. The reasons for the continuance of this war are no longer based on ethnic differences but rather on the hunt for raw materials which are essential for the 21st century’s technology. Will the future order of the global community be decided here?
For THE CONGO TRIBUNAL Milo Rau gathered victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the Congo War for a unique civil tribunal in Eastern Congo. For the first time in the history of this war, 3 exemplary cases were heard, exposing an unveiled portrait of one of the biggest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.
http://www.the-congo-tribunal.com/
Milo Rau (CH)
° 1977
The Swiss director and author Milo Rau studied sociology, German and Romance languages and literature in Paris, Berlin and Zurich under Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. Since 2002, he has put out over 50 plays, films, books and actions. His productions have appeared at all of the major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d’Avignon, the Venice Biennale Teatro, the Wiener Festwochen and the Brussels Kunstenfestival, and have toured more than 30 countries worldwide. Rau has received many honours, most recently the Peter-Weiss-Prize 2017, the 3sat-Prize 2017, the 2017 Saarbrucken Poetry Lectureship for Drama and, in 2016, the prestigious World Theatre Day ITI Prize. Milo Rau will assume the directorship of the NTGent beginning in the 2018/19 season.
Director Milo Rau | Producers Arne Birkenstock, Olivier Zobrist, Sebastian Lemke | Cinematographer Thomas Schneider | Editor Katja Dringenberg | Music Marcel Vaid | Sound Marco Teufen, Jens Baudisch | Research, Casting and Dramaturgy Eva-Maria Bertschy
