Ticket

The Kivu region is one of the deadliest epicentres on the African continent. Each attempt at peace exposes the complexity of a crisis shaped by geopolitical interests, economic stakes and the legacy of a conflict spanning more than thirty years.

Does the peace process launched in June 2025 stand a chance of ending the fighting in Kivu between the Kinshasa army and the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group? Since 2022, this region, larger than Switzerland and located along the eastern border of the DRC, has once again been engulfed in crisis. In a war largely overlooked by major media outlets, millions have been displaced and grave atrocities continue, as the looting of natural resources persists amid rising identity-based tensions. What forces continue to fuel this conflict, and how can peace be achieved in a region that has already endured three decades of war?

Le Sang et la boue

In Numbi, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, coltan mining shapes every aspect of life. Essential to the manufacture of smartphones, this rare mineral is extracted under extreme working conditions. Structured as a chronicle of everyday life, the documentary follows residents caught in an opaque system of exploitation sustained by ongoing armed conflict, and questions each viewer’s responsibility within the machinery of globalised capitalism.

⚠︎ This film contains disturbing narratives that may be sensitive to some viewers.