Screening Date: 15 November Screening Time: 5:50 pm Location: Riverside Cinemas Language: French Certificate: Duration: 85 mins
Synopsis
Located on the banks of the Congo River, the Yangambi INERA Research Station was a booming scientific centre in its heyday. Today, it is an amalgam of jungle and ruin, where questions of knowledge, power over it, and access to it, linger. The Tree of Authenticity recounts the ecological destruction that began at the time of colonisation through the voices of Paul Panda Farnana and Abiron Beirnaert, two scientists who worked at Yangambi between 1910 and 1950. Their stories embody the legacies of colonial modernity and trace the origins of today’s environmental injustice.
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