- An in-depth account of two assassinations that occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017.
- The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with its human rights violations since 1996 denounced by Denis Mukwege and the realisator Thierry Michel with the will to break the omerta around those tragical events, and the indifference of the international community.
- For 25 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by a war that has been largely ignored by the media and the international community. The victims run into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. The perpetrators of these crimes are countless: rebel movements, but also armies, those of the Congo and neighboring countries... All of them seem to be caught up in a dizzying array of killings, for power, for money, in order to monopolize the wealth of the Congo with impunity, in the midst of general indifference.
Travelling through Congo with his handheld camera for thirty years, Thierry Michel witnessed the fights, the suffering but also the hopes of the Congolese people. Relaying the plea of Doctor Mukwege, a Nobel Prize laureate, he retraces the sequence of this heartless violence which has ravaged and ruined Congo for a quarter of century.
An uncompromising documentary, Empire of Silence does not spare any of the actors in the tragedy, nor the Congolese leaders, neighboring countries, nor international institutions. It is based on a UN document, the Mapping Report, which lists the violence committed in the Congo between 1993 and 2003, a disturbing document that was buried. Empire of Silence is an epic tale that traverses the vast Congo, from the mountains and forests of Kivu to the banks of the river in Équateur Province.
A merciless documentary, inspired by revolt and solidarity. A film for history and against oblivion, to break the law of silence and to put an end to the reign of impunity.
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