HCC, CAYP and FOTC are proud to celebrate Congo Week with a special screening: Lumumba (2000), directed by Raoul Peck.
As part of Congo Week, Haringey Community Cinema, Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) and The Friends of the Congo (FOTC) invite you to this special screening of Raoul Peck’s 2000 biopic Lumumba.
Background
Breaking the Silence Congo Week is a week of activities that commemorates the millions of lives lost in the Congo conflict while celebrating the enormous human and natural potential that exists in the country. Communities throughout the globe join in partnership with Congolese each year during the third week of October to screen films, hold teach-ins and forums, organize rallies, host fundraisers, put on concerts and undertake many other activities to elevate the profile of the Congo throughout the globe. Students and community organizers initiated Congo Week in 2008. Faith leaders, scholars, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary people throughout the globe also got involved to acknowledge the lives of the Congolese people and their dignified pursuit for a peaceful, just and sovereign Congo.
Purpose
Since 2008, Congo Week has galvanized the participation of people in over 80 countries and 800 university campuses and communities. The purpose of Congo Week is to raise global consciousness about the situation in the Congo and advocate for peace, justice and human dignity in partnership with the Congolese people. Congo Week 2026 will take place from Sunday, October 18 to Saturday, October 24, 2026.
Event Details
Screening: Lumumba (2000), dir. Raoul Peck
Date: 24 Oct 2026, 2PM – 5PM
Location: The Antwerp Arms (168-170 Church Rd, London N17 8AS)
Guest speakers: TBC
Booking: Eventbrite
About the film & filmmaker
From the director of the Academy-Award nominated I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO.
Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Raoul Peck’s award-winning LUMUMBA is a gripping epic that dramatized for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba.
When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old, self-educated Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state. Called “the politico of the bush” by journalists of the day, he became a lightning rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies in Belgium and the U.S. Lumumba would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated.
Strikingly photographed in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Belgium as civil war once again raged in the Congo, the film vividly re-creates the shocking events behind the birth of the country that became Zaire during the reign of Lumumba’s former friend and eventual nemesis, Joseph Mobutu.
Other works include:
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Exterminate All the Brutes (2021)
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