Of Mud and Blood (DIFF) (2025) 

Synopsis

Numbi is a little village deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains. With their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which finds its way – legally or not, to our industrialized world. For decades this grey gold, indispensable to almost all technological devices, has been the cause of conflict and exploitation. In Numbi, bodies are covered in mud, hands with blood, and coltan hides in pockets with the illusory hope of escaping fate and enjoying the riches of Congo. Sensitive, shocking and deeply moving, Of Mud and Blood documents the everyday existence of Numbi, revealing the hardships of which we must not look away.