Documentary Educational Resources

📣 Thrilled to announce the series kickoff event for our public programming initiative, part of our new Community Circle membership program. We hope to see you there!

Filmmakers In Conversation: COTTON ROAD, from production to the classroom
with director Laura Kissel and professor Daniel Ostergaard
Thu, Mar 5, 4:00 PM EST

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https://events.humanitix.com/in-conversation-cotton-road-from-production-to-the-classroom

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NEW RELEASE!
https://store.der.org/the-mbako-trial-p1093.aspx

The latest feature by the award-winning pioneer of African animation Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto — also widely considered the first Congolese animator — MBAKO TRIAL: MYTH & REALITY is a sharp reinterpretation of a 1933 trial held by Belgian colonial authorities, in which a group of men were accused of being members of the Anioto society: men said to kill like the leopard.

With no visual documentation of the hearings, Kibushi reimagines the events through animation, re-enactments, and interviews. The film challenges Western portrayals of the leopard men as a “savage other” and colonial conceptions of justice and socio-political order.

🎥 Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto
90 min, 2023
In French, Tetela, Kibali, Lingala, Kikongo
with English, French and Dutch subtitles