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‘Downstream to Kinshasa,’ First Congolese Film in Cannes Official Selection, Honors Resilience of War Victims
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variety.comChristopher Vourlias When the Six-Day War broke out in his native Congo two decades ago, documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi—whose film “Downstream to Kinshasa” is the first Congolese film to be an official selection in the history of the Cannes Film Festival—was living in the Musicians’ Quarter in downtown Kisangani, “relatively untouched by the belligerent shells that clashed mainly in the outskirts of the city,” he tells Variety.But the devastating toll of that conflict between Ugandan and Rwandan forces—one of the many battles that constituted the wider Second Congo War—is something Hamadi felt compelled to return to as a filmmaker. “This terrible war has almost been forgotten today, and we run the risk of seeing these atrocities.
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