insane. and our tourist guide planted girl in investigate street food from venezuela here in the. congo calling is a documentary film by director stefan help out and it's just one of top prize at a film festival here in germany for new filmmakers it follows the lives and experiences of 3 different aid workers from europe in the democratic republic of congo and in a part of the country which is one of the poorest the most in secure regions in the world i'll talk to the director to help out after this. goma a city in the east of congo. that game. has a population of 2000003 quarters of whom are refugees in 2013 stephon

travel to go for the 1st time in search of aid workers he has betrayed 3 of them in his film congo calling what brought them here amid so much poverty even if they at least are protected and guarded how do they cope with the situation he met. the spanish conducts research on behalf of harvard university in 2 rebel groups that spread fear and terror in the region the locals call him the professor. peter is from germany and works for an aid organization for 30 years and and new york is belgian she works in p.r. for a large music festival in the city she quit her job as an aid worker and stay didn't go for love. drives with his employees to a rebel group. really. you know.

nothing to do in the past has. done. more than $130.00 groups are active in the region they insist they want to advance the country's development but they can be very brutal it would to a get is it will be looted it was mostly in the moon. itself. in the. browser is fired by idealism of our faces daily disillusionment here he's betrayed by one of his closest associates can keep your eye on bush. keep. voted out on the ruins us from there you can all move for the office on drugs and look. it was a little known what. the locals would

definitely like pizza and sustain what we don't want. in standard. pizza the congo has become his home over the past 30 years now he has to return reluctantly to germany. the others struggle to every day with the question of whether they should stay. and whether their development aid helps or makes things worse and whether they have the strength to carry on. and the director of the film. joins me now now stefan this was your 1st major feature and you chose to kish in one of the most difficult countries in the world why well it started with a friend of mine who is also in the film we've known each other for a long time and he started working there and doing his research then start. telling

me about. how difficult it is for him to struggle with his own role. of being in the position of power of bringing money from europe and. kept telling me about this and i found it very fascinating of course i'd been thinking about the question of development corporation and abstract ways before and i've been interested i've been interested in this but. i realized how in very concrete ways on the ground. how complex the situation may be and this is is this why you made it about 3 different workers i mean it was quite a personal story of the mo but what exactly then we were trying to achieve with this so we were. very fascinated by really just following very concrete people and their lives over a very long time so it's an observational documentary so we filmed for weeks over

the course of 2 years we followed these people. we see how stories. develop and i think this question of it is always discussed in a very abstract way and it's of course extremely difficult to find. answers so that's why we thought it so important to look at what it really feels like in a very concrete yeah i mean the question is posed in the film that you said about the development aid from the west is it making things better or worse in the long time i know you're not an expert but you were there a lot you filmed 3 different what's your opinion having done that you spent a lot of time in the country filming and i mean i met a very many people. european western aid workers and the congolese people also who have a lot to do with the westerners and eastern congo is a very interesting place for this question because there's so many. n.g.o.s the

united nations and so many white people driving around in their jeeps and. is in the end. what we found is that maybe it is precisely through looking at very concrete personal stories that you realize why it is because it is so difficult i'm sorry what's interesting in our 3 protagonists like many others on the ground there so self-inflicted they're not at all white savior nor do they think they are they are. very self-critical about the impact they can have maybe also problems they may be causing so it's extremely complex very briefly how did you protect yourself i mean it's quite a dangerous country even the police can be quite interesting i mean we had the huge privilege that we were always with not only our protagonist but also the congolese colleagues and friends and we were all always with people who were just

a group of 2 people daniel the cameraman and me so we've always we're not like standing in the street being a t.v. crew but we were always with people who took us by their hands and guided and really helped us a lot good luck with the film it's doing the round of festivals but you've got a facebook page congo called ing film that people can look and find out how they can get. pat thank you very much thank you for the author ronald it was his experience as a doctor that prompted his 1st novel cold insane he wrote it in the early ninety's and soon afterwards gave up medicine to concentrate solely on his writing because his novel is a subject this week in 100 german must reads and he had an interesting way of promoting his book. slicing your forehead open on live t.v. and telling the audience you can have my brain may sound a little and same yeah it's also how high i've got this became

a star. and. guts pulled that stunt in 1983 and what better way to advertise his book in same his 1st novel about a mental institution gets himself was a doctor at a psychiatric hospital it starts off in a blur of voices patients doctors dialogs case files whose even talking are they all insane. doesn't take sides and he certainly doesn't mystify mental illness. art and revolt mean nothing to me is that clear absolutely nothing feel free to come with me to the clinic sometime if you want i'll show you crazy then you can see for yourself the crazies are crazy period they're not artists or revolutionaries they're just insane they're poor devils the insane the insane are the poorest devils i know. eventually the young psychiatrist dr hospital merges the

book's central figure doctor hospital once a big career he also wants to help his patients to goals that don't really go together turns out but this isn't a book about deficiencies in mental health care ok well it kind of is but mostly it's about people struggles with themselves their yearning for a better of life and about literature insane is intense and intoxicating and 35 years on it's still edgy today. d.w. has a tourist guide with a difference for the city it's called planet lin and features 50 people for many. around the world who suffered and started a business but israel and d.j. sharon shale originally came here because of the music scene and the nightlife but now she's got

a thriving business something classic venezuelan street food. comes from venezuela she satisfied spending its hunger with us. milking it's. got it but it's something that every business so let me know how to make it at home not new you make it so if you are very very young i guess it actually like maybe like a playground thing with wooden arqiva that i got playing with a hat so i think what you get when you are going for school now and you're long. it's just you have a bus all the time of home. every sunday sharon serves in the premarket right next to the mountain park and prince now about. meal cakes are filled with chicken. that she's prepared to sell. the flea market attracts milliners and

tourists alike it represents the belief that sharon loves what i love about and even in there you have the feeling that you are. a small town but at the same time you are in a big city. sharon show was born in the venezuelan capital cut costs. 30 on she developed a passion for electronic music and started to d.j. . due to be unstable political situation she decided to leave her home and when she was 16 she went to mexico then to spain and made a name for herself as a d.j. a decade ago she came to berlin and state i thought from syria in my life 5 times including burning. and i really enjoyed this very not like to jump in the. emptiness that you don't know what with that in the german capital she switched professions and has no desire to return to her former life as a teacher. luckily venemous can't get enough of sharon's rip us so now she

also says the man we see at a kiosk in bed inspect the districts but has done that them our part of the market has a special place in our hearts because it is here unite began. now. and all 50 stories from planet for me found on our website as d.w. dot com then writes in planet palin and it will all rival for you all very eyes not so for now though thanks for watching i'm bob i. think.

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