Mama Colonel
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Colonel Honorine Munyole is a robust forty-four-year-old widow and mother of seven young children – four of her own, three adopted. She wields her uniform, beret and black handbag like a protective shield, which her daily work desperately requires. More or less on her own, she runs a small police unit dedicated to protecting women who’ve been raped and children who’ve suffered abuse in the war-plagued regions of the Congo. At the start of Maman Colonelle, she’s transferred from Bukavu to Kisangani, arriving only to discover her future home and office in a desolate state. While she deals with such practical obstacles with suitable feistiness, the traumas and social deformities of the people around her have nightmarish dimensions: the envy surrounding those with state-recognised ‘victim’ status, hope for help from the ‘whites’, depression, helplessness.
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Dieudo Hamadi Director · Anne Renardet Editor
First release February 13, 2017 · Produced in Congo - Kinshasa, France · Languages French, Lingala, Swahili
Production
Congo - Kinshasa · France
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Languages
Original title
Maman Colonelle
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · Lingala · Swahili
Release dates
Germany · February 13, 2017
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
Austria
October 28, 2017 · Vienna International Film Festival
Brazil
November 7, 2019
Canada
April 30, 2017 · Hot Docs
Chile
November 12, 2017
Japan
August 9, 2018 · TV premiere
Poland
May 14, 2017 · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Spain
March 9, 2018 · Madrid subtitled version
Sweden
January 27, 2018 · Göteborg Film Festival
Switzerland
September 28, 2017 · Zurich Film Festival
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