The Man Who Mends Women
Belgium, Congo, USA
Long Documentary, Color, 2015, 108 min
Director:Thierry Michel
Photographer: Thierry Michel
Editor: Idriss Gabel
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Synopsis:
This documentary focus on Doctor Mukwege, the winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, who is internationally known as the man who mendsthousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Thierry Michel
Born 1952, in Charleroi, Belgium, he studied at the Institut des Arts et Diffusion in Brussels where he came back to teach cinema. In 1973, he began to work as a filmmaker at the Belgian Television and realized numerous programs all over the world. In ten years, he realized more than seven documentaries on African topics.