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Downstream to Kinshasa

2020

Two decades after the Six-Day War devastated their city, its maimed survivors — long ignored — pile onto a riverboat down the Congo to Kinshasa to demand recognition and compensation. A moving documentary of dignity and persistence.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Democratic Republic of the Congo

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