Screening of German Documentary “Carte blanche”

Wed 19 Jun 2013, 7 pm
Goethe Institut

From Goethe Institut:

“Film teams never go on mission…” is the hard and fast rule of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. There is one exception: Heidi Specogna. The journalist and documentary filmmaker received the permission to accompany the investigators of the International Criminal Court in the case against the Congolese rebel commander Jean-Pierre Bemba.
In 2002 he issued the “Carte Blanche” – a charter to pillage, kill and rape – to his subordinates which provoked a wave of violence in the Central African Republic. The resulted documentary film by Heidi Specogna entitled “Carte Blanche” was screened in 2011 at the International Film Festival in Locarno.

She already attended the Festival in Locarno in 2010 with her previous film “The Goalgetter’s Ship”, which examines the connection of a former professional football player to a child labor scandal in West Africa.

Now both films will be shown by the Goethe-Institut: “The Goalgetter’s Ship” is the German contribution for the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival and “Carte Blanche” will be screened a week later at the Goethe-Institut. Specogna will be present for the screenings for Q&As with the audience.

Free entrance.

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