
Cannabis in Congo
Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has spent decades under the weight of armed conflict, and this film looks at one thread running through that economy: cannabis cultivation. It traces how the crop moves from small plots to buyers, who profits along the chain, and how that money intersects with the armed groups that have kept the region unstable. Local growers, traders, and residents describe the trade from the ground up, giving a picture of an informal economy that persists because the alternatives are scarce and the conflict has made formal livelihoods harder to sustain. The film treats cannabis here not as a lifestyle story but as a piece of a larger conflict-financing puzzle, sitting alongside minerals and other resources that have long been linked to violence in the region. It stays close to the people actually doing the work of growing and moving the crop, rather than zooming out to policy debates, and lets their circumstances make the larger argument about war economies.