THE MAN WHO MENDS WOMEN

L'HOMME QUI RÉPARE LES FEMMES

By Thierry MICHEL

CAT&DOCS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Movies That Matter 2015
Golden Butterfly
Millenium 2015
Objectif Bronze & Audience Award
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH, SWAHILI
    • Duration
    • 114 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Thierry MICHEL
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/A7DE-3C50-8717-FB20-20E7-O
    • Synopsis
    • Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in Congo. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, he now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he hras restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.