Filmmaker Louise Leroux travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023 to follow the work of Canadian women peacekeepers, Mélanie Beaulac and Martine LeRoyer, deployed by the UN to combat sexual violence. Still scarred by the aftereffects of the civil war in neighbouring Rwanda, the DRC has been described as “the rape capital of the world”. Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war and a means of ethnic cleansing, and the “blue helmets” parlay with police and local authorities to facilitate dialogue and education on a taboo subject.
Content consideration: includes brief but explicit imagery of the victims of violence
Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Louise Leroux (director) and Richard Blackburn (producer), and peacekeepers Melanie Beaulac and Martine LeRoyer (via Zoom)
Louise Leroux
Mélanie Beaulac, Mima Gentile, Martine LeRoyer
Canada
2024
In French with English subtitles
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Credits
Screenwriter
Louise Leroux, Richard Blackburn
Cinematography
Louise Leroux
Editor
Louise Leroux
Original Music
Sylvain Grand, Dominique Grand
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