L’or du Congo

Nicola Pittarello | 2010 | Italia | 55’

Six video-chapters describe the life and the people that live in the furthest regions of Congo, close to the border with Ruanda and Uganda. The Kinshasa government, the capital of the Republic of Congo, hasn’t reached these areas yet. These areas represent dangerous zones and they are influenced by economical and military power of locals and of the close states. Here, there are cyclic humanitarian crisis that repeat and that worsen the difficult development situation. But people keep living there: thousands of young boys grow up in the gold pit extraction, while their young partners die in the hospitals because of Aids. Small carrying groups travel by bicycle 700 km in the forest for just 70 dollars per journey, while a story-teller entertains a small audience. An old village chief will tell the consequences of slavery, colonialism and globalization for these populations.