About the film
When war came to Rose’s village in the DRC, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Over a decade later, they are reunited in the U.S., where they must face the past and build a new future.
Pushing the Elephant
— BY Beth Davenport, Elizabeth Mandel
status
Completed
type
Nonfiction
year
2010
director
Beth Davenport, Elizabeth Mandel
producers
Katy Chevigny, Angela Tucker
Synopsis
This documentary chronicles how Rose Mapendo escaped from the ethnic violence of the Democratic Republic of Congo to become a vital voice to help mend her divided country. She has assisted dozens of survivors to rebuild their lives, but there is still one person Rose must teach to forgive – her daughter Nangabire. Pushing The Elephant counters the horrors of genocidal violence with the moral fortitude and grace of one woman’s mission for peace.
Pushing the Elephant is a Cinereach grantee.