Photo courtesy of Fruitmarket / Langfilm

Monday 11 | 6:15pm | Segal Theatre

Switzerland | 2017 | 100 minutes | directed by Milo Rau
Various Languages with English Subtitles

The war in Congo has caused more than six million deaths over the last twenty years.
The population is suffering, but the offenders stay with impunity. Many people see
this conflict as one of globalisation’s crucial econimic distribution battles because the
country has major deposits of many high-tech raw materials. Milo Rau succeeds in
gathering victims, perpetrators, observes and analysts of the conflict for a unique civil
tribunal in eastern Congo. The documentary film brings these spectacular court trials to
life on the big screen and creates an unvarnished portrait of the largest and bloodiest
economic wars in human history.

Photo by Thomas Mueller

Milo Rau is one of Switzerland’s most acclaimed theater directors.
In 2007, he founded the theatre and film production company
international institute of Political murder (IIPM). He is known for his
documentary films The Last Days of the Ceausescus (2010) and The
Moscow trials (2014). Rau works as a journalist, author and lecturer.
The Congo Tribunal is his third feature length documentary.