Name of Project
SEMA movie
Artist
Director Machérie Ekwa B.; Writers and Actors Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, Photographers Maud-Salomé Ekila and Dona Moleka
Country
Category
Date
2019
Facilitated/Produced by
Mouvement des Survivant.e.s en RDC, Fondation Panzi RDC, Dr Denis Mukwege Foundation
Description
This film features the stories of two women who fell victim to the ongoing sexual violence facing the Democratic Republic of Congo. Written collectively by the Mouvement des Survivant.e.s en RDC, the film will take you through their heartbreaks as well as their fight to find hope and justice. The majority of the acting roles are played by the survivors themselves. In order to create a truly powerful film, they bravely reenacted their own traumas. The survivors took on these parts consciously, realising the benefit of artistic expression as part of the healing process.
Pictures taken by Maud-Salomé Ekila and Dona Moleka during the filming of the movie SEMA.