Films by Tavis Jean-Batiste

Germany, Republic of the Congo 2022, 77 min
by Jan-Christoph Gockel, TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo

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, Gian