KIVU THE LAKE OF LIFE

How does one live in a dream landscape that could be destroyed at any moment?
In Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the population chooses to live under the threat of two natural bombs, the Nyiragongo volcano and Lake Kivu, rather than remain in their villages, where they often face attacks from armed groups.

Elisé Sawasawa. Was born in 1994 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

An autodidact, he quickly developed a passion for images and trained as a photographer and later at various documentary film workshops – in 2013 at the Salaam Kivu International Film Festival (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and in 2021 at the Yaoundé Film Lab (Cameroon). So far, Elisé has directed four short films, including Expression.

He is currently working on the documentary Trop c’est trop whilst simultaneously writing Kivu le Lac de la Vie, a documentary project supported by Le Fonds Jeune Création Francophone and Impact Lab (FIPADOC 2023).