Şiddetin Dramı

Theatre Of Violence

Turkey Premiere

DCP / Renkli Color / 106’

Acholi, English, French With Turkish And English Subtitles

Denmark, Germany, 2023

Director
Emil Langballe, Lukasz Konopa

Cast
Krispus Ayena, Dominique Ongwen

Awards

2023 DOK.fest München, Viktor Award

2023 Movies That Matter Festival, Best Documentary

2023 Docs Against Gravity, Best Cinematography

Can you be an executioner and a victim at the same time?

That is the central question for Krispus Ayena, who has been appointed defence lawyer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the most prestigious case of his career. At the age of 9, Ayena’s client, Dominique Ongwen, became one of at least 20.000 children abducted by rebel leader Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Ongwen was brainwashed by Kony, who used a combination of Christianity, witchcraft and torture to turn the children into loyal LRA soldiers in the rebellion against incumbent president, Yoweri Museveni.