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A Love During the War

Thu, May 30, 2024
    Part of
  • FilmAfrica
  • and
  • DanceAfrica Festival 2024
Directed by Osvalde Lewat-Hallade (2005)

Reunited after being separated by the Congo-Kinshasa war, Aziza and her husband are rebuilding family life with their four children. But Aziza, a journalist, is haunted by horrors other women suffered during the war. Compelled to discover what has happened to a little girl she used to care for, she returns to Eastern Congo to find that the legacy of violence continues. Filmmaker Osvalde Lewat-Hallade illuminates the continuing cost of violent conflict in her docudrama.

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      RUNNING TIME

      63min

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      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      LANGUAGE

      In English and French with English subtitles

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