The Corridor



Synopsis

When he was three years old, Dominique Bikaba’s family was expelled from their ancestral land in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has spent the past 30 years fighting for the rights of Indigenous and local peoples to protect their traditional lands and the gorillas that share the forests with them. Today, Dominique and a team of international partners are on an ambitious mission to secure 21 interconnected land titles.

The film shares a groundbreaking strategy to save the critically endangered Eastern Lowland Gorilla, signaling a new era of conservation through the fight to establish a wildlife corridor in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Featuring a nearly unprecedented level of community involvement and empowerment, Congolese environmentalist Dominique Bikaba and local scientists and activists showcase in action what conservation needs to look like in the 21st century, especially in the all-important Congo Basin Rainforest – the “second lung” of the earth.

Filmmakers

Ray Klonsky & Marc Lamy
United States, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2024
34 minutes

French & English