77min original German, English, French, Lingala, Maschi, Swahili version
Synopsis
Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier and prospector of a coltan mine in the Congo, travels back to the places of his childhood for the first time. He wants to recapture his traumatic history at its original sites. With a wooden doll as his proxy, he can express the unspeakable. Ndagano encounters his kidnappers, meets his family who once disowned him, returns to the mine. He tries to reveal the connection between his fate and the global commodity trading [43 FF MOP] with a.o. Patrick Joseph, Gianni La Rocca, Laurenz Leky, Ernestine M’Kajabika, Léontine M’Kajabika, Michael Pietsch
Festivals/Awards
2022 43 FFMOP – Film Fest Max Ophüls Preis
Cast and Crew
Director Jan-Christoph Gockel, TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo
Screenwriter Jan-Christoph Gockel, Yves Ndagano
Director of Photography TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo, Eike Zuleeg, Christian Hennecke (documentary COLTAN-FIEBER)