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Location: Cannon HOB 340

Date: October 14, 2026
Time: 3:00 pm

Held during Congo Week and sponsored by the Office of Rep. Jonathan Jackson [D-IL], this screening offers an opportunity to bring greater attention to the people and communities at the heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s critical minerals sector and to consider what U.S. engagement in the region means for those most directly affected.

As part of the United States government's efforts to secure its critical minerals supply chain, it has entered into a strategic minerals agreement with the DRC. A critical unanswered question is: What impact do agreements of this nature have on local communities in the DRC?

About the Film: Ndjimu is an international award-winning film by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo about invisible people, literally people hidden underground. People who produce materials that our affluent world runs on. In the claustrophobic depths of the Mutoshi mine in Katanga, DRC, Ndjimu follows the Rememberers—a community laboring under unsafe and brutal conditions to extract coveted minerals from ancestral soils. These minerals feed global technology empires, yet their extraction comes at the community’s own expense.

About the Director: Mwalimu NDALIKO KATONDOLO (Petna), was born in Goma, DR Congo and is a filmmaker, educator and an ancestral ecologist. His multi-genre artistic works are acclaimed for their decolonial Africanfuturistic style, which engages historical content to address contemporary sociopolitical and cultural issues. In 1994, he co- founded Maideni, an ecological youth movement. In 2000, he co-founded Yole!Africa and in 2005 he founded the Ishango Encounter (formerly known as Salaam Kivu International Film Festival). Ndaliko Katondolo teaches and consults regularly for international organisations, addressing social, ecological and political inequity among marginalised groups through culture and Art.

We hope you join us for this important screening and discussion.