Filmmakers in Congo fight the European gaze

The film examines the mechanisms underlying Western views of Congo in particular and African countries in general. Journalist Ley Uwera, photographer Mugabo Baritegera and filmmaker Bernadette Vivuya are among the pioneers of a new generation of Congolese who want to show their own reality as a response to the world’s one-sided, Western-dominated perception of their region. With their cameras, they present an image that is miles away from Western stereotypes of misery and violence. Are there ways to reconcile the different perspectives? And is a Western filmmaker capable of telling this story?