Kisangani Diary (1998) [N/A]
Release Date:
February 20, 1998
Original Title:
Kisangani Diary
Alternate Titles:
Kisanganin päiväkirja
Loin du Rwanda
O Diário de Kisangani
Pamietnik z Kisangani
To imerologio tou Kisangani
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Flor Films Paris
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Production Countries:
Austria | France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 52
Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost” refugees. They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda, the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin. The Hutu-refugees leave the forest, gathering in two gigantic camps. Hundreds of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani. The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest, and the hopeless attempts to help them.. But only four weeks later, the unprotected UN-camps are again attacked by machine-gun fire, deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army (AFDL) of today’s Democratic Republic Congo. Eighty thousand men, women and children disappear once again back into the jungle. (jedensvet.cz)