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A WAR MOVIE

CASQUES BLEUES

By Louise LEROUX

FILM ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL - as CONS

Social issues - Completed 2024

Shot during the violent anti-UN riots, this cinema vérité documentary records a ground-level perspective of Canadian women peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape has become a weapon of mass destruction.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Social issues, Female director, Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Louise LEROUX
- Writer(s)
- Louise LEROUX, Richard BLACKBURN
- Producer(s)
- Richard BLACKBURN (Shootfilms)
- Synopsis
- Shot during the violent anti-UN riots, this cinema vérité documentary records a ground-level perspective of Canadian women peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape has become a weapon of mass destruction.
  
  Deployed as part of the UN's special victim’s unit to combat sexual violence, these policewomen collaborate with the Congolese national police in pursuit of sexual criminals. Armed with her camera, Louise Leroux documented their mission for two months, recording their challenges and victories, their failures and disappointments against a dystopian backdrop of violence and death. In a country besieged by economic terrorism, political impunity and systemic corruption, the film bears witness to the hopes these peacekeepers shoulder versus the crushing reality they face on the ground.