Stroom School: The Congo Tribunal

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During the Movies that Matter Festival in Filmhuis Den Haag the documentary The Congo Tribunal will be screened several times, each time with a different side program.

Sunday 25 March 2018, 16:15 hrs
Movies That Matter Festival
Filmhuis Den Haag, Spui 191, The Hague
Screening The Congo Tribunal
followed by Q&A with Lara Staal
Lara Staal is a programmer and curator. Between 2013 and 2016 she worked as a programmer at theater Frascati in Amsterdam where she developed a series of socio-political programs, exploring the relationship between art and other domains. Examples include International Law, whose law? (2013) and Out of State (2015). She writes for magazines like Rekto:verso, TM and Etcetera.

Wednesday 28 March 2018, 21:15 hrs
Movies That Matter Festival
Filmhuis Den Haag, Spui 191, The Hague
Screening The Congo Tribunal
Linda Polman introduction
Linda Polman is an investigative journalist and the author of We Did Nothing, War Games and The Crisis Caravan, three books about humanitarian aid and intervention.

Thursday 29 March 2018, 21:15 hrs
Movies That Matter Festival
Filmhuis Den Haag, Spui 191, The Hague
Screening The Congo Tribunal
followed by Q&A with Eva-Maria Bertschy (IIPM) and Jean-Louis Gilissen
Eva-Maria Bertschy is an author and researcher specializing in European documentary and social-realist theatre and a collaborator of Milo Rau and his IIPM in a variety of projects.
Jean-Louis Gilissen is the chairman of The Congo Tribunal and works at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Friday 30 March 2018, 19:15 hrs
Movies That Matter Festival
Filmhuis Den Haag, Spui 191, The Hague
Screening The Congo Tribunal
followed by Q&A with dr. Marieke de Hoon and dr. Thijs Bouwknegt
Marieke de Hoon (specialized in International Criminal Law) and Thijs Bouwknegt (historian, legal expert and former journalist specialised in African Affairs, War Crimes Trials, Transitional Justice and Mass Violence) discuss the themes of the film and truth finding mechanisms and transitional justice processes in the context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sunday 8 April 2018, 14-19 hrs
Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Closing event The Congo Tribunal
+ attended by Milo Rau and special guests
Closing event of the exhibition. With two screenings of the documentary The Congo Tribunal, a Q&A with Milo Rau and and special guests Sofia Stolk, Sven Lütticken, Ewout Irrgang and Alphonse Muambi. Also a presentation of posters made during the workshop Where Politics Fail, Maybe Posters Can Help organized by the Community of Practice.

THE CONGO TRIBUNAL (Official Trailer) from MAGNETFILM on Vimeo.

'The Congo Tribunal' (filmposter)

Milo Rau 'The Congo Tribunal'
photo: © Fruitmarket, Thomas Schneider, 2017

See You in The Hague
photo: graphic design: Autobahn