Film: 'Congo Calling' (Special Sneak Preview) - Watch Here

Director: Stephan Hilpert

Documentary, 2019, 90 Min.

Time: October 16th -31st

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In Goma, eastern Congo, three European development aid workers are forced to question what it means to help. Raúl, a French-Spanish economist doing research on rebel groups, realizes that he is leading his Congolese colleagues into great temptation with his project funds, putting their study at risk of failing. After 30 years in Africa, Peter, from Germany, reaches retirement age and is unable to renew his job contract. He struggles to stay in Congo and to preserve his identity as an aid worker. And the relationship of Anne-Laure, from Belgium, is put to the test when her Congolese partner, Fred Bauma of the La Lucha youth movement, becomes a high-profile regime critic. CONGO CALLING reveals deeply personal and complex insights into the coexistence and cooperation between Europe and Africa – and raises the question: how helpful is the help of the West?