

Virunga
Conservation is war
Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa's oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park's borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.
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- French
- gorilla
- democratic republic of the congo
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Congo, United Kingdom
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United StatesUS
- PremiereTribeca Film Festival17 Apr 2014
- PremiereLittle Rock Film Festival17 May 2014
- PremiereTraverse City Film Festival31 Jul 2014
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival10 Oct 2014
- Digital / OTTNetflix7 Nov 2014
United KingdomGB
- PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival24 Jun 2014
- Digital / OTTNetflix7 Nov 2014
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PremiereAbu Dhabi Film Festival24 Oct 2014
CanadaCA
- PremiereHot Docs28 Apr 2014
- PremiereDOXA Documentary Film Festival2 May 2014
ChinaCN
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival13 Jun 2015
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereOne World Film Festival5 Mar 2015
DenmarkDK
- PremiereCPH:DOX6 Nov 2014
FinlandFI
- PremiereHelsinki International Film Festival21 Sept 2014
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT6Netflix7 Nov 2014
GreeceGR
- PremiereVovousa Festival1 Aug 2016
HungaryHU
- PremiereBudapest International Documentary Festival26 Sept 2015
IcelandIS
- PremiereReykjavik Film Festival27 Sept 2014
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Virunga was released on 17 April 2014.
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CinemaSerf
8/9/2026
This is essentially about the sterling efforts made by the conservation rangers in the Virunga national park in what is now the DR of Congo but it quite quickly expands from their work to illustrate just how inconsequential preserving a tribe of gorillas was when armed soldiers began marauding about the place parading their astonishing array of heavy weaponry and indiscriminately wreaking death and destruction as the…
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