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- Oscar-winning director Kathyrn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) and VR creator Imraan Ismail (The Displaced, Valen's Reef) have co-directed The Protectors, a VR short documentary exposing the dangerous and grueling reality faced by rangers protecting African elephants from ivory poachers. Over 30,000 African elephants die each year at the hands of poachers, and despite the global outcry over the killings trafficking continues. The biggest key to saving these elephants from extinction are the rangers working on the ground within Africa's national parks. The project was made in partnership with National Geographic Channel and Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures.
- Two brothers are trying to survive a planetary disaster. Things have envaded the world. Nobody knows how they got here nor what they came here to do, only that they feed on living things included humans.
- While following Jemima, a curious little girl wandering through dusty roads, crowded markets, slaughterhouses and bat hunting scenes, we encounter three other women who describe the harsh realities of being born female and deaf in a society that sees one as a defect and the other as demonic possession. The film follows the everyday struggles of Immaculée, Sylvie and Stuka against marginalization, abuse and oppression. Despite the insurmountable barriers imposed on them by society, the protagonists' strong and undefeated will allows them to take hold of their fate every single day revealing the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.
- In Mundele, the identity interrogations of the author of Gabonese and French origins that stages herself, a reflection of the perception of those around her, are a metaphor of the structural situation of Central Africa, embodied by the representation of her perception of herself through the urban landscape. From the hairdressing salon where her hair become the vector of questioning to her stroll in Pointe Noire from historic to iconic places, Mundele offers a vision of France-Afrique past, present, and future like a meditation, an intriguing dream.
- In Kisangani, a group of high-school students who cannot afford to pay the teachers' "bonuses" organized themselves to prepare the State exam together.
- During a stay in the countryside, a drama occurs within a young couple.
- Did you know that 50% of cellphone companies get raw materials to build their cellphones electronics from the Congo. The majority of the workers that are forced to mine for copper and cobalt are young women. These women are beaten, raped, and often cheated for their work. HEAR Congo works to rescue young women from these mines and equip them with practical skills to become financially independent.
- This film illustrate through physical struggle, the clash between generations and civilizations.
- A man with Aids is rejected by his family and with no one else to turn to, seeks out the help of a homeless man.
- "The rape of the land, the mutilation of the flesh." La femme Congolaise - courageous and industrious despite the vicissitudes and the turbulence of life. She continues to fight for herself, taking on professions previously reserved for men. More often then not she must pay her children's school fees and compensate for her husband who is either underpaid, unemployed, or absent. She sells kikwembe at Zando market ; she is an engineer repairing electronics on the corner of the street, she is a designer, a stylist, minister, or teacher... Demonstrating their incredible strength and their faith in their ability to continue their own advancement, these women stand strong in their communities even as they denounce the rape and the violence they experience. "Both earth and mother, she is the foundation, like Kinshasa herself, scorned and beloved." Please find the trailer on our website: www.jazzmama.org