Enough is Enough
Elisé Sawasawa / France & Democratic Republic of Congo / 2026 / 65 min
Amidst the chaos of war in Congo, a young filmmaker documents his generation's struggle for dignity, using his camera as a weapon.
In January 2025, Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, falls. It takes just four days for the M23 rebel movement to defeat the Congolese army and regional forces sent from neighboring countries—under the supervision of the UN’s largest peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO. For the international community, it is yet another conflict on the fringes of the news cycle. For the people of Goma, it is the culmination of more than 30 years of war.
‘Enough Is Enough’ is told from the inside by filmmaker Elisé Sawasawa, who was born and raised in the war-torn area. With his camera as a witness, he follows everyday life in a city on the brink of collapse. Some take up arms, others choose humanitarian work, poetry, dance, and music as their way of fighting. With rare access, the film documents a historical injustice that the world has long turned a blind eye to. Thirty years of war have driven millions to flee and cost even more lives. ‘Enough Is Enough’ insists that we watch and familiarize ourselves with a conflict on the African continent that is also driven by global economic interests.
Event screening March 19, 19:30 at Cinemateket:
M23 and The Current Crisis in DR Congo
Meet the director of the film 'Enough is Enough', Elisé Sawasawa, in conversation with journalist Oscar Rothstein, about the rebel group M23.
Elisé Sawasawa is living through a never-ending tale of war, despair and resistance in North Kivu in Democratic Republic of the Congo. But every day in the streets and camps, the people fight, refusing to give up, armed with their weapons – sometimes made of wood – poetry, dance, and music. Meet Elisé in conversation with journalist and publisher of ‘Afrika brevet’ for Danwatch, Oscar Rothstein, as they explore the current crises in DR Congo and how the making of art, becomes powerful resistance.
Kikuyu Land
Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere / 95 min
A Kenyan journalist returns to her ancestral home to cover a legal battle between multinational corporations and the country's indigenous people, but must confront her own family's role.
For the Kenyan Kikuyu people, land and soil are synonymous with identity. But during British colonialism, land was stolen from the indigenous communities, who now have to work under the harsh conditions imposed by large international companies on the very same fields that belonged to their ancestors. But there are also people who are stubbornly fighting for justice and to get the land back into the hands of the indigenous people.
Journalist Bea Wangondu (who co-directed the film) travels from Nairobi to her ancestors’ lush highlands to uncover their legal and political struggle. But as the layers are revealed and a neocolonialist system emerges, a family secret is also revealed, causing the journalist’s own life story to crumble beneath her.
‘Kikuyu Land’ is a nuanced portrait of the farm workers, the legal battle against exploitation, the dreams that exist beyond the fields, Kenya’s political chaos, and, not least, Bea Wangondu’s own painful family secrets.
Event screening March 18, 19:00 at Cinemateket:
Filmmaking as an act of protest
Panel conversation with the directors of 'Kikuyu Land', Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu.
In the highlands of Kenya, journalist Bea returns home from Nairobi to her childhood home to cover a lawsuit against the local government and a multinational corporation, brought by displaced indigenous landowners. While whistleblowers help uncover the layers of a neocolonial system and offer answers to unsolved crimes, hidden wounds and family secrets are revealed.
Afterwards, you can meet the film’s directors, Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown, in a conversation about the process of making this film and how film can be used as an act of protest. The conversation will be moderated by Moussa Mchangama, Senior Advisor & Co-founder of InFuturm.
Out of School
Hind Bensari / Morocco & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 70 min
In a remote village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a brother and sister are forced out of education before their childhood is over.
Twelve-year-old Mohamed can no longer continue his studies. His parents cannot afford the daily journey to the nearest secondary school. Without further education, his dream of working in the city and lifting his family out of poverty begins to fade. His sister Fatima, about to complete her final year at the village’s primary school, hopes to escape the same fate. She wants to become a teacher. To wear jeans to work. She wants a life that extends beyond housework and marriage.
‘Out of School’ follows two children from the first generation in their village to enter a classroom. When education ends after the earliest grades, so too does the promise it carried. What awaits is not adolescence as a time of discovery, but an accelerated entry into adult responsibility. A coming-of-age story from a Moroccan village, where the distance between dreams and reality is almost unbearable.
Event screening March 17, 19:00 at Cinemateket: