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Downstream to Kinshasa

Name: Downstream to Kinshasa
Released: 2020

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

This film is stop 2 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Democratic Republic of the Congo. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 196 country film challenge.