The Greatest Silence Rape in the Congo
Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and the inspiration for a 2008 U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, this extraordinary film, shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict.
Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. A survivor of gang rape herself, Emmy Award(r)-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travels through the DRC to understand what is happening and why.
Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Informational Programming: Long Form and Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing.
"Harrowing and heart-rending and maddening and confounding." - Robert Lloyd, The Los Angeles Times
Running Time
53 mins
Year
2007
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