congo calling is a documentary film by director pat and it's just one of top prize of a film festival here in germany for new filmmakers it follows the law exam the 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 the. game. there. 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 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 law 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. you know. nothing to do about. that. more than

130 groups are active in the region that insists they want to advance the country's development but they can be very brutal if you are to a good it will be looted it was the moon. itself. but. did you. grow or is fired by idealism faces daily disillusionment here he's betrayed by one of his closest associates are going to. keep. us from. the office. and look. because of. the locals would definitely like peter sustain what we are. in front of them. 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 make it in one of the most difficult countries in the world why well it started with a friend of mine holland who is also in the film we've known each other for a long time and he started working there and doing his research there and started telling me about. how difficult it is for him to struggle with his own role. of being in the position of power of bread. money from europe. kept telling me

about this and i found it very fascinating of course i've been thinking about the question of development corporation and he struck ways before and i'd be interested i've been interested in this but. i read as to how in very concrete ways on the ground. how complex the situation may be and this is this why you made it about 3 different workers i mean it was quite a personal story of them all but what exactly did we were trying to achieve with this. 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. of course extremely difficult to find. answers so that's why we thought it's so important to look 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 term 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 very many people. european western aid workers and the congolese people also who have a lot to do with the western as an 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 the jeeps and. is in the. 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 a difficult. story what's interesting in our 3 protagonists like many others on the ground there so selfish likes if 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 also always with people who were just a crew of 2 people daniel the cameraman and me so we've always we're not like standing in the 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 a 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 19 eighties 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 i know i've got became a star. and.

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