Projekt Beschreibung
Cahier Africain
BY HEIDI SPECOGNA

It all started with a small school exercise book. Its pages were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them in the wake of armed conflict. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book to record the crimes committed against them.
Cahier Africain is a long-term observation that begins accompanying its protagonists in 2008. But while they try to master their difficult daily lives with confidence – and while, in The Hague, the legal prosecution of crimes committed during the last war is still in progress – the next war breaks out in the Central African Republic.


Available Rights
All rights worldwide except Switzerland, Germany, Austria, USA, Canada and Australia.

Festivals & Awards
German Filmaward: Best Documentary 2017
Swiss Film Award: Best Documentary Film 2017
Swiss Film Award: Best Film Editing 2017
DOK Leipzig 2016: Silberne Taube & Preis der Interreligiösen Jury
Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival 2017
ORIGINAL TITLE
Cahier Africain
YEAR
2016
GENRE
Documentary
DURATION
118 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
French/Arabic/Sango with English, French and German subtitles
COUNTRY
Switzerland
DIRECTOR
BY HEIDI SPECOGNA
WRITER
BY HEIDI SPECOGNA
CAST
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PRODUCTION
PS Film GmbH and Filmpunkt GmbH