Tuesday, April 10

Step by step coal production in Congo

The screening of Makala from the section “Documentary Time with NTV” took place at Beyoğlu Sineması with the participation of the director Emmanuel Gras. The title of the film, “Makala,” means “charcoal” in Swahili, and the film follows the story of a young man who makes and sells charcoal for living in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. After the screening director Gras said: “I’d gone to Congo many times before this film. When I was there for another documentary film, I saw the charcoal production there and I was awestruck. I decided to go back and film the coal production. I wanted to show every step of the production process and point to the fact that despite how difficult their job is, it is severely under-paid.”

Photo: Ersin Durmuş