The Doctor Who Saves Women
Director: Angèle Diabang Brener
2014
52 minutes
Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege has been conducting operations on female victims of sexual violence in the south Kivu Province for fifteen years, in a hospital he founded himself. He was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded the Sakharov Prize in 2014. This film is his opportunity to speak out, together with his nurses and patients-an alarm call to the world. The film offers vivid accounts of the resilience and determination of Congolese women to not be defined by the crimes committed against them.