Private Project

I cannot

Children from Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are not interested into be being apart of destroying peace in their country so they ask protection to the National Government and to the International Community.

  • Alif Buterinote
    Director
  • Alif Buterinote
    Writer
  • Costan Lupamba Kaswende
    Producer
  • Kiza Tusime Yves
    Producer
  • Jonathan Tshatamba
    Key Cast
  • Abdoul Bahizi
    Key Cast
  • Guylain Muhindo
    Key Cast
  • Sarah Mwatsi
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 8 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 16, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
  • Country of Filming:
    Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Peace in the Streets Global Film Festival 2016
    New York
    United States
    October 30, 2016
    Best Short Film tie 14-18 years old
  • Girona Film Festival 2016
    Girona
    Spain
    September 28, 2016
    Spain Premiere
    Official selection
  • Toronto Urban Film Festival 2016
    Toronto
    Canada
    Canadian Premiere
    Official selection
  • Reel Youth Film Festival 2016
    Vancouver
    Canada
    Official selection
  • Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival 2017
    Haliphax
    Canada
    April 22, 2017
    Official selection
  • Fan Boy Film Festival 2016
    New York
    United States
    Official selection
  • Slum Film Festival 2016
    Nairobi
    Kenya
    Eastern Africa Premiere
    Official selection
  • Festimaj 2017
    Paris
    France
    France Premiere
    Nominee
  • Mister Vorky International One-minute Film Festival 2016

    Serbia
    May 15, 2016
    Serbia Premiere
    Official selection
  • ArteNonStop Film Festival 2017
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    May 2, 2017
    Argentina Premiere
    Special Mention
  • SEMAINE DU CINEMA AU KIVU – SECIK 2017
    Goma
    Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
    June 16, 2017
    Congo DRC Premiere
    Official selection
  • Los Angeles San Rafael Film Festival 2017
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Finalist
  • Fanter Film Festival 2016
    Cáceres
    Spain
    Official selection
  • Ekurhuleni International Film Festival 2016
    Ekurhuleni
    South Africa
    South Africa Premiere
    Semi-finalist
  • Cinepocket 2017
    Bruxells
    Belgium
    Belgium Premiere
    Official selection
  • TIF Video Challenge, Photography Contest and Story Challenge 2016
    Nicosia
    Cyprus
    Cyprus Premiere
    Official selection
  • TimeLine Film Festival 2016
    Milano
    Italy
    Official selection
  • 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival 2016

    United States
    Official selection
  • MCNY Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    Finalist
  • Les Films de la Toile 2017
    Paris
    France
    Official selection
  • IndustryBOOST Competition
    Miami
    United States
    Finalist
  • Dissident Film Festival
    Maun
    Botswana
    December 2, 2017
    Botswana premiere
    Official selection
  • NPS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL
    Guwahati
    India
    Indian premiere
    Official selection
  • Fake Flesh Film Fest
    Kamloops, British Columbia
    Canada
    Official selection
Director Biography - Alif Buterinote

Alif Buterinote, 19 years of age, is a Congolese filmmaker (Writer and director). He is recognized internationally and nationally by various awards which his films have already won. He made his cinema studies at Yole! Africa for 5 years ( from 2009 to 2014). Alif is now a graduate in Biochemistry at College Mwanga in Goma and wants to continue with cinema studies at university if he finds the financial means.

In 2016, Buterinote receives his first international award for his 17-minute documentary film, The Land of My Art, in 2015, as the Best Short Documentary Film for the Chennai International Short Film Festival 2016 in India. This documentary one of its kind won in the United States and Bangladesh in the festival CreActive International Open Film Festival 2016, the prize for Best Documentary Short Film of the country (of DRCongo). It should be noted that this documentary was selected at many festivals around the world in 2015 and 2016, following the example of the 2015 Laguna Film Festival in the United States, Dirriti-a-Todi Human Rights Film Festival 2015 in Italy, BlackBird Film Festival 2015 in the United States, Goldensun International Film Festival 2016 in Malta, Festival International du Cinéma de Kinshasa 2016 in DRC, Congo International Film Festival 2016 in DRC, Ekurhuleni International Film Festival 2016 in South Africa, Afro-pépites Show 2016 in France, Ismailia International Film Festival 2016 in Egypt and in the IndieWise Free Virtual Film Festival 2017 in the United States where this film ended up as a finalist in the international competition. The same year, in 2016, he directed his multi-award-winning short film "I Cannot", a one-minute film selected the same year in 21 festivals around the world, including the 2016 Girona Film Festival in Spain, Toronto Urban Film Festival in Canada, the 2016 Reel Youth Film Festival in Canada, the 2017 Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival, the 2016 Fan Boy Film Festival in the United States, the 2016 Slum Film Festival in Kenya, the 2016 Ekurhuleni International Film Festival in South Africa, the 2017 Film de la Toile in France ... and won the Best Short-Film Award tie 14-18 years old in the Peace in the Streets Global Film Festival 2016 in New York, but also received a Special Mention in ArteNonStop Film Festival 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Director Statement

The nature composed of mountains, rivers, soil, subsoil, atmosphere, plants, microbes, … is under the domination animal including humans ensures unity.
Since the creation of the world by the Creator, which is a mystery beyond human comprehension, the man was given the power to ensure the unity of all creation by his work, producing course. The fruits of his labor must be available ç meet the needs of its neighbors who are in need to create harmony within human society, respecting the authentic sense of domination, live traditional African society, according to tradition . But also live the unity in love with as a sign of charity.
Similarly, each people has received his lifestyle and survive on earth, under the sun, that is to say a pure and authentic culture of nature but the resemblance of all these apparently different cultures is respect for the dead. It is known to honor the dead as support as they were still alive.
By this primitive human nature, mainly in Africa where we can say "Our ancient Africa (before contact with Europeans) it was a paradise. People loved each other, helped each other, lived what we lack complementary to modern material wealth to approach the perfection of Community self-sufficiency that is missing in our lives in the twenty-first century "as keep these ancestral values; we simply good to honor this culture instead of restoring, in Africa, but we welcome acculturation that led to unrest, wars are gradually beginning to dissolve in vain because by African beliefs, ancestors watch over the living.
Despite wars experienced by Africa for years, it still manages to retain its traditional identity, shows the drum that plays the young dancer with the molten balls of fire that are swallowed by the power of his African drum " The land of my art "Alif Buterinote. We notice while reading this article, that the idea of domination is not a question of monopoly or sowing conflict and repeated wars with its neighbor and then come in the mask sympathize with goods, the food, money for that then it depends on you while he is your target to be destroyed in the looting rather than cooperate with it for the product of their work meets your needs, you who are needy .
The idea of cooperation, this is a debate any other that can even last for centuries for those who claim to be the strong, so that they arrive at least accept their weakness in "nature." So everyone wants to be the strongest. Who will lead the other? Which will cooperate with each other? Who will unite with the other? Who avail its products to another? It returns again to the problem of always wanting to have a monopoly that is the only problem that then causes of terror in this world.
We are not obliged to accept this idea practically but theoretically it seems almost all be partisan, the sign of the freedom of expression that we live in this dark age, I qualify. When there is something that harmed our interests, regardless of the magnitude of change and development that can bring something to the community, we are always pressed to say we do not have to. The idea of capitalism was improperly developed today, even if we kill sow all forms of terror, if they are not personally suffered is not serious, it grows rich anyway.
Humanity has lost and still wants to continue losing his good manners as there has technical or technological evolution. Weapons were manufactured to support bandits to destabilize other provided we get rich, contemporary slogan!
To get to restore value to our existence, as our human species, must know that cooperation in the unit is just the only way that can help us achieve the technical and moral development which we are always called to hone our confidence in ourselves, the proof is that victory, the resistance of traditional African culture wars repeatedly suffered this continent, we can kill but never a people's culture.